Memory Lane: The Wildcat BBS
To those that remember the underground world of BBSes, there is a podcast available at HanselMinutes.com where Scott Hanselman interviews the founders of Mustang Software and explores the joys of personal computing in the early 90’s. If you remember those days, you should definately check it out.
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Just last month, while juggling for my son, my wife asked me how or why I learned to juggle. I explained that there was quite a bit of waiting around associated with running a BBS. She had never heard of a BBS, nor had I ever disclosed the uber-geekdom associated my days as a SysOp within the Massachusetts BBS community. She did not understand the excitement associated with waiting over 30 minutes for the latest version of Duke Nukem to download. Or the fun associated with watching someone browsing around your site, then popping in to say hello. At the height of it’s popularity, my BBS received over 100 calls a day. OK, maybe I’m the only one impressed, but it wasn’t bad for a highschool kid with a 14,400 modem installed on his fancy 486DX33 (that’s right… DX… math co-processor in full effect… ).
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I did a quick search for ANSI art to find an image for this post and was amazed to find a downloadable copy of TheDraw…
Regards,
Todd Kobus,
SysOp DD BBS
Oh, thanks Kevin for that special copy of Win95…