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  • Yearning for old technology

    From Deasl to All on Sat Jun 14 07:23:57 2025
    As much as I love all the conviniences of new tech, I was thinking about how much more I valued data when I had to work to get it. Recording music to casset tapes, aquireing text files on foppy and getting information on BBSs/News Groups/etc. So funny enough I started asking ChatGPT how to get back on any available BBSs and that's how I ended up here. Is everyone else being nostalgic for the old days a bit what brought you here, or any other thoughts/feeling what brought you here?

    Please forgive any spelling/grammer issues, I've gotten very reliant on the red squiggly lines ;)
  • From Kaptain_Krawdad to Deasl on Mon Jan 26 18:30:39 2026
    Re: Yearning for old technology
    By: Deasl to All on Sat Jun 14 2025 07:23 am

    I remember attempting several times to download some shareware over 1200 baud only to have someone pick up the phone or some checksum error to pop up. The BBSand the keyboard driven experience was amazing then and still to a lesser extent today. I wonder what you could do with some 56K modems today. "Cheers!" to
    simpler times, m8!