BBS's

From: John Rollins <kd7bcy_at_teleport.com>
Date: Thu Nov 16 18:39:43 2000

I miss DJO... My favorite BBS in Portland. I've noticed that Computer
Bits hasn't had a BBS listing in a LONG time, and for a long time
before they stopped it was down to a handful. I REALLY miss that full
page listing of BBS's in the Portland/Vancouver area. I'm not sure if
it's the right name, but the Werehouse was the last good BBS. There
HAS been a sort of revival to the BBS scene, but in web form. UBB is
the best web board software I've ever seen. My favorite site is
bladeforums.com. And really the only true BBS I've seen keep up with
the times is FirstClass. Truly a wonderful BBS system. The Portland
Macintosh Users Group has an FC BBS that is online, and I think there
are still several dial-up only FC boards in the area. OneNet used to
be a huge network of FC boards, but it has almost died now. FileNet
was another good one and I'm not sure if it's still up or not, but
PMUG doesn't have access anymore since the node we hooked up through
went down - gee, must be two years at least already! But yes, DJO was
my favorite. They had an internet gateway for at least a year before
they went down, and I had my first email address through that board.
Really stretching the memory, but I think it was macman_at_djo.com. Such
wonderful memories of DJO, web access through the library's UNIX
system(I still think Lynx is the best browser ever, and before I
figured that out I was a killer with gopher) and hacking into AOL
with versions 2.7 and earlier. I think 2.5 and 2.7 were the best for
hacking - mostly because there were readily available hacks for them.
You could get on for 2-3 days before they noticed and deleted the
account...
<sniff> Ah, the good old days... When a Macintosh IIvx with 5MB RAM
could do almost anything...
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