Re: Re: Internet and FTN   
     By: Poindexter Fortran to Dreamer on Fri Oct 12 2012 06:37 pm   
      
    >   Re: Re: Internet and FTN   
    >   By: Dreamer to Poindexter Fortran on Thu Oct 11 2012 05:15 pm   
    >    
    >  > All of the stories from those days are extremely fascinating reads.  I   
    >  > was just getting into BBSing around 92, and while I was extremely active   
    >  > in the local networks, I never bothered with Fidonet, and didn't "waste"   
    >  > my money on magazines.  When I started looking back at what all was   
    >  > happening in those years, it's astounding.   
    >    
    > My BBS and a local othernet got coverage in a regional newspaper, an article   
    > written about us and published in the National Enquirer, and phone calls fro   
    > the Secret Service after one of our callers skipped the country after the   
    > local PD had confiscated his passport. As a 20-something running a BBS out o   
    > his house before most people had even heard of the internet, it was pretty   
    > exciting.   
    >    
    > Looking back, I wish I saved the Enquirer article. If anyone has the Enquire   
    > with the photoshopped photo of Fabio and Rosanne Barr in bed together, pleas   
    > let me know.   :)   
    >    
    > --pF   
    >    
      
   and r&e's bbs brought porn and wares into the bbs scene first.   
      
   "Practise safe Lunch, Use a Condiment"   
      
      
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