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  • Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK

    From Bagwaa@VERT/NOTTSBBS to TOG on Thu Jul 10 20:11:48 2025
    Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
    By: TOG to Bagwaa on Sat Jul 05 2025 23:21:58

    I've always liked them more, specifically because of the door games. It was fun to get online and play your turns on something ( like BRE or Tradewars ), and wait in suspense for the next day to roll around and see what damage the other's did to you, or if your attacks did well and stuff. It was also neat to talk to other people in the city over the chat functions and then the BBS meet ups that we used to have. Those were all fun!

    100% agree, I remember in the 90s being amazed that I could talk to someone in another country over something like Fidonet without paying for long distance calls, was kind of crazy at the time :)

    I never really did play Tradewars or BRE, I was way to invested in LORD, maybe I should give those a go now that I am here :)

    Rich

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Bagwaa on Fri Jul 11 10:40:48 2025
    Bagwaa wrote to TOG <=-

    100% agree, I remember in the 90s being amazed that I could talk to someone in another country over something like Fidonet without paying
    for long distance calls, was kind of crazy at the time :)

    I hear you - in the first half of the '90s, you could get mail through
    the backbones with just an overnight call. In the later half of the
    90s, I discovered internet/Fido transport, and set my system to poll my
    uplink several times a day. Getting mail the same day from around the
    world from an old DOS box in the corner was an incredible leap.






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  • From Bagwaa@VERT/NOTTSBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jul 12 07:10:06 2025
    Re: Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Bagwaa on Fri Jul 11 2025 10:40:48

    I hear you - in the first half of the '90s, you could get mail through
    the backbones with just an overnight call. In the later half of the
    90s, I discovered internet/Fido transport, and set my system to poll my
    uplink several times a day. Getting mail the same day from around the
    world from an old DOS box in the corner was an incredible leap.

    It also blows my mind that a community still exists in the BBS space, back in the day everyone seemed to know everyone "locally" over a handful of BBSes, it seems there are a few of us left internationally so that sense of community is still here.

    bagwaa

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Bagwaa on Sun Jul 13 07:07:30 2025
    Re: Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
    By: Bagwaa to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jul 12 2025 07:10 am

    It also blows my mind that a community still exists in the BBS space,
    back in the day everyone seemed to know everyone "locally" over a
    handful of BBSes, it seems there are a few of us left internationally
    so that sense of community is still here.


    i would call them cliques, not communities. things are very very
    different.
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