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MORE OF WHAT BBSES ARE ALL ABOUT
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Where Did BBSes Come From?
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My idea here isn't to bore you with a bunch of useless
trivia you could probably care less about, but to give you a
glimpse of how the BBS world has evolved. The first BBSes
ran on computers with double floppy drives, 300 baud
modems and seldom more than 64K of memory. Those first
boards look little like the giant boards of today, with
megabytes and megabytes of disk storage, high-speed modems
and often some of the most complex software in existance.
However, one thing has remained the same through the ten
years in which BBSes have prospered. This is the spirit
of the people who make this such a wonderful and dynamic