So, global warming is the cause?
Ah, yes. I remember RBBS.
He was a doctor wasn’t he?
I thought that Al Gore invented computer bulletin boards.
A true pioneer. Randy with CBBS and Ward with Xmodem. Wonder how much time was spent with CBBS on re-dial....
Never heard on Mr. Suess, but Ward Christensen I remember. IIRC, he wrote the BBS software and the first file transfer protocols for uploading and downloading files to a BBS.
RIP, Mr. (not Dr.) Suess.
One thing interesting about bulletin boards was the forums that reached out across the nation and the world. I think the bulletin board owners uploaded forum packages to each other. I also remember my computer’s phone directory having all the bulletin boards I could find in town plus the library and university computers.
R.I.P
Never trust a computer tech whose experience doesn’t include surfing the BBSes on a 1200-baud Hayes POTS modem.
Oh, the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done!
There are points to be scored. There are games to be won.
And the magical things you can do with that ball
will make you the winning-est winner of all.
Fame! You’ll be as famous as famous can be,
with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.
I was in that club at the time as a broke hobbyist; he was a good and helpful guy. What we are using right now is basically a TCP/IP Internet version of a BBS.
those were the good old days. Fidonet, ThousandOaks, X/Y and then Z-modem vs. Kermit transfer protocols. I loved Kermit when talking to dissimilar systems. I laughed when I think IBM put Kermit and XModem on their systems.
How about all the unarchiving - Arc, Uncompress, PKZip.
Modems from 300->1200->2400->9600->14.4/bis, 33 then monster 56k. I can still remember the sounds of training...
Anyone still remember Hayes command set?
I still have a 1200baud modem.
The BBS was an exciting time.
BBSing back in the day was awesome. Once good offline readers became commonplace, it was even better. At the time, I thought it was awesome that I could send a message to someone in Australia and get a reply back in 3-4 days. Fidonet really did a lot of work back then.
RIP.