On Wed, 07 Dec 2016 14:51:18 GMT, "dr. who?" <noemail@none.com> wrote:
>"dr. who?" <noemail@none.com> wrote in news:XnsA6D75BFECB827bgmailc@
>69.16.179.39:
>
>> BigC <BigC@rochester.rr.com> wrote in
>> news:n4df4cdl4ficse4slma6s8dn16ilnv0j4i@4ax.com:
>>
>>> On Tue, 06 Dec 2016 17:02:55 -0500, eb <nobody@no_one.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:11:44 -0600, C_Ya <cum-one@cum-all.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Mon, 05 Dec 2016 19:53:18 -0600, Old Geek
>>>>><eldergeekenator@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Mon, 05 Dec 2016 18:43:06 -0500, eb <nobody@no_one.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:19:13 -0600, 'YoYo' <abmea_YoYo@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Mon, 05 Dec 2016 01:12:37 -0600, C_Ya <cum-one@cum-all.edu>
>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:44:02 -0600, Old Geek
>>>>>>>>><eldergeekenator@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:22:22 GMT, "dr. who?" <noemail@none.com>
>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>Old Geek <eldergeekenator@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>>news:nues3cldvbi7oe3d4mq6dlots2nblua2d7@4ax.com:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> My internet connection is going about 500k right now instead
>>>>>>>>>>>> of the usual 100mbps.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hopefully that gets corrected by tomorrow so I can get back
>>>>>>>>>>>> to posting...
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> EG.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>500k. Remember the days when that would have been blaingly
>>>>>>>>>>>fast? d.w?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>I do remember, all too well:) Heck there was a time the 56k was
>>>>>>>>>>really fast!
>>>>>>>>>>I have become quite spoiled with the speeds I can now get
>>>>>>>>>>though...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>EG.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Ahhh. remember the 14.4, 28.8 dial up daze...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>lol
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>-CYa
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>You're a youngster... I remember my first US Robotics 300 baud
>>>>>>>>modem! It might still be in a box somewhere! I think I had an
>>>>>>>>accoustical modem of some sort, too, even before that.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>YY
>>>>>>>I remember connecting to CompuServe and having to choose from the
>>>>>>>300 baud rate @$6/hour and 1200-2400 baud @ $12.00/hr.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Like you, YY, I am also a dinosauer...lol
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>eb
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have an old 300baud accoustical modem too.
>>>>>>Then I jumped to a 2400 fax modem, it took a while to convince the
>>>>>>wife it was worth it. Never told her I was going to hook up to pron
>>>>>>bbs sites :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>EG.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>My ohh my, how times have changed.
>>>>
>>>>Hey, let's run a dinosauer quiz; "Elder Geek" used the term "bbs" in
>>>>his reply to moi; can any of you "youngsters" tells us what a "bbs"
>>>>was, what it was used for, and what software you used to connect to
>>>>it?
>>>>
>>>>A genuine, Marvell Comics. Stan Lee "No Prize" will be given to anyone
>>>>with the correct answer...lol
>>>>
>>>>eb
>>>
>>> BBS stands for Bulletin Board System, But I can't remember (I have
>>> that problem a lot) what software I used. I started on AOL and
>>> struggled to keep what I downloaded because I only had a 40 meg hard
>>> drive but 40 meg was hot shit back then.
>>>
>>
>> I believe any browser could connect to a BBS portal.
>> Nestscape was the one I used. I do not rememmber using a specific
>> program, I was about to say app ;-)
>> If you needed any specific informatiion about a subject, a users
>manual,
>> windows help, microchip specs, computer system specs, etc. you went to
>a
>> specific BBS.
>> d.w?
>>
>
>The way it worked, each BBS had its own phone number.
>You dial that phone number and the modem would connect you to the
>site.Then you would use the browser to see what is available.
>Strictly text oriented.
>What a different world we live in today.
>d,w?
The original BBS' were DOS-based so text-based terminal emulation
programs capable of running in DOS were used; ProComm Plus was my
personal fave. I don't know if there were any UNIX-based ones out
there or not; anyone else know?
Companies had their own BBS' that hosted drivers and patches for their
products, similar to web sites today. I used to go up on the Seagate
and Connor HDD BBS' to download IDE utilities that would enable
different mfr's HDDs to coexist together. The UI was text/menu driven
rather than GUI like the web is today. That's why BBS' died out in
the mid-90's with the explosion of the GUI-based WWW.
They were also infamous for hosting malware/virus infected executable
files and anti-malware/anti-virus programs were NOT as good as they
are nowadays. Like the web now you had to be careful where you went
or dialed up to back then.
Ah...those were the days...lol
eb
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