Multi-node BBS'

[TeoZ]

Depends. Rusty N Edies BBS was local to me and it was very popular just 
because of file sharing (which is what ultimately made it shut down).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_n_Edie%27s_BBS

My first look at the WWW came from there when they started offering web 
portals and I purchased Mosaic 1.0
Once the WWW took off BBS died pretty quickly.

-----Original Message----- 
From: ben
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 11:02 AM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Multi-node BBS'

On 2/17/2015 8:48 AM, Geoff Oltmans wrote:
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.