Dr. Dobbs to cease?

Ian King wrote: An excellent observation, and one that has been hard for me to adjust to. My memories of dialing BBSes are fond because using a BBS wasn't always trivial, so the people you met via BBSes had to have at least a base level of intelligence in order for you to meet. One consolation is that the global nature of "everyone has internet access" leads to message groups like this one, and the ability to connect with similar-interest people globally without paying out the tooth for it. I have worked with people in my hobbies in the last ten years that I never would have met otherwise, thanks to the internet becoming a commodity (hell, in my house, it's a *utility*). -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/