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Re: "What a BBS Is (by winter)"
Yeah. I remember the magical feeling, after dialing and getting a busy signal a few times, the modem would make that handshake sound and weird texty things would scroll across the screen. I'd do my business quickly and get out, because long-distance was expensive, by the minute...
Feb 14 · 5 weeks ago
🍺 mrrobinhood5 · Feb 14 at 02:33:
@gritty. Uh. That ended in a really dark way. Very interesting read. Thank you for the find.
Gees, I should have read it to the end... But in my experience as a barely-teen in the 80s in NYC, the only pedos I met were IRL, not online. I certainly would not go to a BBS meetup had I known such things existed.
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