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Fair enough, I'm just always like this when joining new communities. It is nice to hear that everyone's a bit "out there," makes me feel better about my own "out there"-ness.
On another note, bulletin board systems have always intrigued me, even though I wasn't around when they were prominent. What were they like exactly?
> On another note, bulletin board > systems have always intrigued me, > even though I wasn't around when > they were prominent. What were they > like exactly?
Well... dial-up, of course... so the modem sounds. A few places with deeper pockets had more than one line, but for the most part it was one person logged in at a time. Can't remember the names of the more popular board packages. While I think there was a notion of fora, I'm also remembering uploading/downloading .txt files to communicate. Digitized photos were somewhat the rage.
I went to a couple gatherings of people that logged into one board, and found people of similar mind.
One funny story (in a humbling way). I'd been carrying on with another user named "Honey", whose handle had me imagining, well... all kinds of things. And we met for lunch. And she was a solid four times my weight. :-) Fun to interact with, though.