Twit the new BBS

Funny how everying old is new again.  So many people think twitter is soo new.  They must not be old enouph to remember CompuServe or other bulletin board systems (i.e. WildCat BB).  Fairwell CompuServe -RIP.  Proably never heard of 300bps modems either.

That was before things like V.32Bis and fancy compression to emulate 53000. Thus, at 1 bit per baud, didn't we just use "300 Baud" back then?

I wouldn't know, I started off with a 2400.

SlackmasterK said:

That was before things like V.32Bis and fancy compression to emulate 53000. Thus, at 1 bit per baud, didn't we just use "300 Baud" back then?

 

I wouldn't know, I started off with a 2400.

Man, I'm just 20... but I always got all the old corporate stuff (which was still better than the newer consumer stuff)... that brings back weird memories... memories of when Matrox made the best graphics cards for example... but enough of the nostalgia...

Dodo said:

SlackmasterK said:

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Man, I'm just 20... but I always got all the old corporate stuff (which was still better than the newer consumer stuff)... that brings back weird memories... memories of when Matrox made the best graphics cards for example... but enough of the nostalgia...

I remember CGA monitors and green-screens, kid.

Or Genie ... the poor brother of compuserve....

heck I remember huge phone bills for dialing up from california to NJ -- there used to be a programmers board that had huge archives of free code, Cliffside DBBS multi-line and multi server ... back in the day.

in my home town of stockon there was "the wrong number" yeah that was the name of the system

here it is today: http://www.kcuhc.com/

I see CHuck is still around...

figuerres said:

Or Genie ... the poor brother of compuserve....

heck I remember huge phone bills for dialing up from california to NJ -- there used to be a programmers board that had huge archives of free code, Cliffside DBBS multi-line and multi server ... back in the day.

in my home town of stockon there was "the wrong number" yeah that was the name of the system

here it is today: http://www.kcuhc.com/

I see CHuck is still around...

Think I vaguely remember using ZModem sw for downloading small dos programs on my IBM PCXT with a green screen.  How far we have come.

staceyw said:

figuerres said:

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Think I vaguely remember using ZModem sw for downloading small dos programs on my IBM PCXT with a green screen.  How far we have come.

and ymodem ??

figuerres said:

staceyw said:

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and ymodem ??

 

  and xmodem

And what do these have to do with twitter? Just because you could leave short messages doesn't make it into twitter. Twitter's interesting uses come from the fact it's updated everywhere via SMS or mobile internet, and the fact that memes spread virally via RTs and hashtags. That's twitter, the social aspects, not the technical.

Yggdrasil said:

And what do these have to do with twitter? Just because you could leave short messages doesn't make it into twitter. Twitter's interesting uses come from the fact it's updated everywhere via SMS or mobile internet, and the fact that memes spread virally via RTs and hashtags. That's twitter, the social aspects, not the technical.

yggdrasil, post was no intended to be taken so literal.

Yggdrasil said:

And what do these have to do with twitter? Just because you could leave short messages doesn't make it into twitter. Twitter's interesting uses come from the fact it's updated everywhere via SMS or mobile internet, and the fact that memes spread virally via RTs and hashtags. That's twitter, the social aspects, not the technical.

Hey... old geezers are reminiscing... haha

Anyone remember Q-Link on C-64?  They eventually became AOL...

I hate how the news media was crediting Twitter with all of the information coming out during the protests in Iran. Ten years ago, that would have just happened on some other technology, like IRC.

Not that Twitter isn't cool in itself. That type of reporting just feeds into all the buzz and trends and delusions of self-importance you have in the tech evangelist side of the blogosphere.

Dodo said:

SlackmasterK said:

*snip*

Man, I'm just 20... but I always got all the old corporate stuff (which was still better than the newer consumer stuff)... that brings back weird memories... memories of when Matrox made the best graphics cards for example... but enough of the nostalgia...

Hmm, all I recall was S3 and Voodoo.

Minh said:

Yggdrasil said:

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Hey... old geezers are reminiscing... haha

Anyone remember Q-Link on C-64?  They eventually became AOL...

Yep, i did that also.... vic-20, c-128

Voodoo  i recall havin the dual voodoo rig back then...and Vesa-Local-Bus graphics cards and IDE controller cards from Promise Tech.

You're not cool unless you've been on Sierra's The Realm.

Oh those were the days. US Robotics and ZyXEL modems. 300- or was the 1200 Baud and Max'sBBS on a CA1200. Some 313373 BBS's were off-limits for anything under 9000 Baud modems. That was after reading in some C64 demo text scroller about someone using/accessing a BBS on the C64. Someone else attached a multi-gigabyte harddive to a C64 at some point - that was coolness. Back then some people were bragging about 100 MB harddrives to the extent that at one BBS, I forget the name, the sysop had spelled out the capacity - "one hundred and twentyeight megabytes". Better stop before someone links to a certain Monty Python sketch...

exoteric said:

Oh those were the days. US Robotics and ZyXEL modems. 300- or was the 1200 Baud and Max'sBBS on a CA1200. Some 313373 BBS's were off-limits for anything under 9000 Baud modems. That was after reading in some C64 demo text scroller about someone using/accessing a BBS on the C64. Someone else attached a multi-gigabyte harddive to a C64 at some point - that was coolness. Back then some people were bragging about 100 MB harddrives to the extent that at one BBS, I forget the name, the sysop had spelled out the capacity - "one hundred and twentyeight megabytes". Better stop before someone links to a certain Monty Python sketch...

My first computer had an overall storage capacity of 170KB. My current setup is just shy of 4TB.

23.5 million times in 24 years.

Scary when written like that, eh?