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GEnie, Compuserve, Prodigy, America Online -- 80's kids will remember the pre-pseudo-internet era.

Sep 2, 2020

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Also late '90s/early '00s people hanging around on IRC: *** Joe has joined #K00lChaT *** PBot sets mode: +b *!*@*.aol.com *** Joe was kicked by ZBot (lamer!)

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IRC was great. Nearly every modern-day computer security company worth above 1 billion dollars started off with a founder in #hack (not joking)

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Yeah! The early days of the internet really was a much smaller community. I remember the days of organizing a list of local BBS'es (in the Baltimore area for me) and logging in via my Supra 14.4 modem. Good times!

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BBS stuff was great...still friends with some sysops I met nearly 20 years ago by first dialing into their systems. Many nights playing "door" games like TradeWars 2002 and posting on forums

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Oh man -- I loved TradeWars 2002! That game was so addicting. I remember spending hours waiting for the busy signal to go away so I could log in and start moving cargo across the galaxy.

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The best part was when you logged in before midnight, used up all your turns, and then logged back in after midnight to resume with a fresh rate limit. :)