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Chris Brannon chris at the-brannons.com
Tue Apr 27 20:26:43 BST 2021
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"The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]" <drwho at virtadpt.net> writes:
Were you on any BBS networks, in particular? I used to hang out on
VampNET quite
a bit; made a lot of friends there that regrettably I've lost contact
with.
I was on PODSnet and FidoNet sometimes, but mainly spent time on localechoes. Most of the friends I made in the BBS world were local.
I had AOL access for a time in high school. Not ashamed to admit it. The
libraries and encyclopedias had MLA citation formats with them, so it was
easy (albeit weird to the baselines) to use them when writing papers. They
had an AP newswire, too,
Funny you should mention that. I was on the debate team for a while,and access to news and libraries for debate team purposes was myjustification for getting set up with CompuServ.
Excellent. I was a telerama.com customer for quite a few years.
I also used concentric.net quite a bit. If I recall correctly, theywere one of the first ISPs to offer unlimited plans. Initially I usedmy friend's shell account, but I lost that access when his religiousparents discovered some of the stuff I had been saving from usenet andanonymous ftp sites. Concentric shell accounts were where I learnedUnix.
I eventually moved on to local ISPs, and there were a lot tochoose from. That is one of the things I miss from dialup; there wasreal diversity of choice among different providers.