Bulletin Board Systems: You Know You're Old When

I was talking to my bestest friend Alan (currently banished to the Klingon Moon of Rura-Victoria) and we got talking about the BBS Systems we used to run. We were nostalgic about those geeky days and, of course, we started Googling Victoria BBS systems. I once ran a BBS called Night Line in Victoria and I was a member of the FidoNet network. I did some searching and discovered that a master list still exists.

fidonet_victoria

Ah, yes, Night Line BBS. Those were the days. I ran that site from February 1987 until sometime in 1990 - and I still had calls for it to return until roughly 1992. We all know what happened then - stupid Internet! For those who want to learn a little bit more about those days, we found this documentary about bulletin board systems.

nightline

The scary thing is, I still have a picture of the login screen of my BBS. I ran this system off my Tandy 1000SX (a whopping 4.36hz with a 7.6hz turbo button or something) on a 720KB floppy drive and, eventually, I upgraded to a huge 30MB external hard disk. Yes, I am a hard core nerd. I am going to go listen to my vinyl Megadeth records.

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Shane Birley is a blogger, huge geeky nerd, web developer, poet, and creative writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a partner at Left Right Minds, a web development, arts management, business blogging and on line marketing company.

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