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   mike (mike@micro.mkp.ca)'s status on Friday, 16-Dec-2022 02:35:37 JST mike

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   • Autumn Mahoney

   @autumn BBSing got better and better with each year until suddenly it wasn’t there anymore. And then the Internet got commercialized, and somehow wasn’t there anymore either. Only just recently is there starting to be hints of local community outside commercial spaces on the Internet, where I live.

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     Autumn Mahoney (autumn@tech.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 16-Dec-2022 02:35:38 JST Autumn Mahoney

     I found this backup tape while sorting through boxes — the final resting place of Sound Bytes BBS.

     Turns out I can still fire it up in DOSBox and browse through everything as a time capsule.

     Though the farewell message suggests the BBS would return in summer of 1996, the world moved on quickly, and the BBS scene — as it was — disappeared just like *that*.

     By the time 1996 did roll around, we were busy building our area's first dial-up ISP, and there was no turning back.

     #bbs #retrocomputing