Backtrack: Bulletin Board Systems

There was once a time when it took hours to download a file, when you had to find out from friends and magazines the numbers to the best… well.. let’s call them “sites,” and when your home phone (no mobile back then) was the same line that you used to access remote servers. That was the wonderful, frustrating, and amazing world of BBSes. In this episode we talk about our first time using computers to access a larger world!

Show Notes

• A History of BBS » bit.ly/2ESsVTH
• History of Early Modems » bit.ly/2Q1zwfv
• The Sounds of Different Modems » youtu.be/ckc6XSSh52w
• The Lost Civilization of Dial Up Bulletin Boards » bit.ly/2fsiTJE
• Forgotten World of BBS Door Games » bit.ly/2EKviHj
• History of Online Forums » bit.ly/2FFVynV
• RIP CompuServe » bit.ly/2hrWHAH
• Wikipedia on GEnie » en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEnie
• AOL at 30 » time.com/3857628/aol-1985-history/