| [06-13 23:39] | [Chat] | No: then 2 |
| [06-13 23:39] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: then you where hooked using there custom interface |
| [06-13 23:39] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: that didnt work with othersoftware easily |
| [06-13 23:39] | [Chat] | No: i used telnet (service, not app) and tymnet a lot in those days |
| [06-13 23:40] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: gopher was popular then too |
| [06-13 23:40] | [Chat] | No: mostly for IRC |
| [06-13 23:40] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: then usenet |
| [06-13 23:40] | [Chat] | No: usenet was popular in the mid 80s when I first started using BBS |
| [06-13 23:40] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: irc was also popular and then im's bcoming the popular stuff and irc shrunk |
| [06-13 23:40] | [Chat] | No: since they used local phone numbers, they were free |
| [06-13 23:40] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: yeah usenet was basically shared forum |
| [06-13 23:41] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: fidonet was what most bbses used back then |
| [06-13 23:41] | [Chat] | No: usenet eventually became so riddled with malware AOL and Google killed it |
| [06-13 23:41] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: usenet was also to hard to control |
| [06-13 23:41] | [Chat] | No: it was also the first decent place on the internet to get great porn. |
| [06-13 23:41] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: and was major warez and porn |
| [06-13 23:42] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: so a lot of isps killed support for it |
| [06-13 23:42] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: usenet is still around and hard to track on it |
| [06-13 23:43] | [Chat] | No: a lot of us used usenet posts to screw with people |
| [06-13 23:43] | [Chat] | No: I used IRC a lot in those days |
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