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TehBorken

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Blast from the past

« on: Feb 28 06 07:28 »

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An old old BBS ad. OMFG. Check out the pricing! This was back when it was SO INCREDIBLY COOL to display an image on your PC. lol

$1.00 for the first minute, and .75 cents each additional minute. Yikes.


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Re: Blast from the past

« Reply #1 on: Feb 28 06 09:59 »

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Wow. Dialup BBS's. 300 baud modems. How the hell did we ever manage?

Then came Archie, Jughead, and Veronica....


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« Reply #2 on: Feb 28 06 10:14 »

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Witch wrote:

Remember Fidonet back before the Internet? You could email someone on the other side of the world. It might take three days to get there, and go through 5 volunteer BBS owners, but it would get there.

I do remember that. I also remember paying $500 for a Dual Courier HST modem that *blazed* along at 14400bps. Full price was a cool $1,000. I got it for half-price as part of US Robotics "sysop" deal. (Yeah, some deal.)