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~inquiry

> 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.

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~impulse wrote (thread):

Heh, sounds like a lot of fun actually! While it may have been slow, it brought people with shared interests together, and I can't think of anything more fun than that.

I kind of wish I could have seen that, instead of Twitter, which is more dramatic than a soap opera, and Facebook, which goes against the fundamental rule of interaction on the internet: never give out your personal information.

But with advances in technology comes more ways to abuse it, I suppose.