17 Feb
2015
17 Feb
'15
8:32 a.m.
That could be part of it, but I noticed a distinct drop off in traffic when the larger
information services (prodigy, CompuServe, aol) and local ISPs started offering general
internet access. It was a pretty sharp decline as I recall. Different areas are different
though. I'm sure that another major driver was whether or not you were in a telephone
exchange that had local telenet and sprintnet access. In our area we were fortunate to
have that available as a local call.
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On Feb 17, 2015, at 10:02 AM, ben <bfranchuk at
jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
On 2/17/2015 8:48 AM, Geoff Oltmans wrote:
I was a Remote Access sysop. That was a fantastic BBS system. Only
ever ran it single line, but I did run it off of a windows 95 box
that doubled as my personal computer and that worked quite well
before the internet finally did in the BBS. I'm sure a multi-node
system would have been fine
I'd been toying with the idea of setting up RA again. Just need a
fossil-socket driver...
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I thought the fact that file sharing became popular is what did in
BBS. Log in and leave a message is only a few minutes. Download
some file @ 300 baud and a few hours is gone. Of course you just have
a single phone line and 50+ people a day one can never log in with
a long distance number.
Ben.