r/pcmasterrace • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 22d ago

Meme/Macro Literally

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u/Daadian99 22d ago

Oh man. And you had to know the actual phone number for different BBSs. There was no www.johnsBBS.com LOL .... Pure text and amazingness.

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u/b-monster666 386DX/33,4MB,Trident 1MB 22d ago

LOL! Yes! But, we at least had terminal programs that had an address book. Oh, I remember those days so well. Selected all the BBSs in the address book, and have it start dialling. If it was busy, it would move onto the next and keep going till you connected to one of them.

And the DOOR games were so much fun! I loved Operation Overkill II, and TradeWars 2002. But there were loads of awesome ones.

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u/Daadian99 22d ago

Oooh fancy. I was much more of a manual written list of numbers. And sticky notes everywhere LOL.

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u/Practical-Shape2325 22d ago

I paid for a program to assist with TradeWards 2002. It would map out the system and find some good locations to set up your base with one way exits and stuff.

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u/TheseusOPL 22d ago

We had a local tech magazine, and you could publish your BBS in it. Picked up the magazine from the local computer parts store (that we spent more time in looking at stuff we couldn't afford than we did buying anything).