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|    Jas Hud to Andre Robitaille    |
|    Re: BBS'ing    |
|    05 Jun 22 07:57:53    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 10930.bbs_carn@1:103/705 27020a72       REPLY: 1880.fidonet_bbscarni@1:154/70 270116ac       PID: Synchronet 3.19b-Win32 master/a2a9dc027 Jan 2 2022 MSC 1928       TID: SBBSecho 3.15-Linux master/92bcd45eb Jun 1 2022 GCC 8.3.0       BBSID: VERT       CHRS: ASCII 1        To: Andre Robitaille        Re: Re: BBS'ing        By: Andre Robitaille to Dumas Walker on Sat Jun 04 2022 05:14 pm               > started looking up old nodelists. You can see this explosion of BBSes around        > like 1991-1994, and then a they started all disappearing right around the        > time the first ISP showed up.        >        > Apparently I missed the heyday of having lots of boards to call.              some people call it 'the 3rd wave' and it was a lot of fun.       --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 114/705 120/340       SEEN-BY: 123/120 131 124/5016 129/305 330 331 153/250 757 7715 154/10       SEEN-BY: 203/0 218/700 840 220/70 221/0 1 6 360 226/17 30 100 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 111 112 113 206 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664       SEEN-BY: 229/700 230/0 240/5832 250/5 8 266/512 267/800 280/464 5003       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 292/8125 298/25 301/1 305/3 317/3 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 335/364 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/81 460/58 633/280 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/1 2452/250 4500/1       PATH: 103/705 280/464 221/1 6 218/840 770/1 317/3 229/426           |
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