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 Posted 02/20/2015  12:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CelticKnot to your friends list
Ah... this discussion reminds me of being the sysadmin of my BBS many years ago. Times and tech have changed since the 2- or 4- line BBS'es and acoustic phone couplers, but a lot of the basics still remain. People are people, for one.
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 Posted 02/20/2015  12:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list
Could you imagine a place this image-intensive on dialup?

You'd click the thread when you wake up, and come back during lunchtime to actually read the thread.
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 Posted 02/20/2015  1:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CelticKnot to your friends list
No kidding. At 300 baud you could actually see characters coming across the screen one at a time. Can you imagine trying to grade a coin rendered in ASCII art?!
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 Posted 02/20/2015  2:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add denco7 to your friends list

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You'd click the thread when you wake up, and come back during lunchtime to actually read the thread.


Ha.....ha.....all the old people here,keep reminding me of days I have forgotten all about.

I remember trying to download a graphic, set to download, go away to do something else waiting ......waiting........waiting......check back an hour later, almost, another 15 minutes .....done.

If you ever needed to download a program, set the computer not to sleep, click download, go to bed, by the time you wake up, your 40mb program should be all downloaded. Of course providing something didn't happen at 2:00 am to interrupt the download, in which case you have to try again tomorrow night. The old days

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 Posted 02/20/2015  2:34 pm  Show Profile   Check vermontensium's eBay Listings Check vermontensium's eCrater Listings Bookmark this reply Add vermontensium to your friends list
I am using dialup.

My modem is going nuts
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 Posted 02/20/2015  3:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Altaira to your friends list
My old school's internet sucks, it can take over 5 minutes to load Google to the extent that you can type stuff into the search bar. To be fair though there were some 20-25 people trying to connect at the same time.

I first learnt of the internet in 2005 at school. Back then, Yahoo and Wikipedia is the internet . My dad brought his work laptop home and connected a phone cable to it and I remember it made a fax machine noise.

It was not until 3 years later that schoolwork used the internet enough that we got a modem.
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 Posted 02/20/2015  11:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list
The first BBS I ran was with my Commodore 64, a single 1541 drive, and a Westridge 300 baud modem.
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 Posted 02/21/2015  12:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list

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The first BBS I ran was with my Commodore 64, a single 1541 drive, and a Westridge 300 baud modem.


OG Net Nerd.
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 Posted 02/21/2015  12:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add trout1105 to your friends list

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At one stage, when members were banned or suspended from the forum, they were automatically re-labelled as "On Vacation". Old help thread on the subject. Unfortunately, this caused more problems than it solved - people would take it literally and try to e-mail banned members asking them how their vacation was going - so this no longer happens. During the period, some members may have had "On Vacation" manually edited as their title, but apart from that, you shouldn't see it on the forum anymore.


What's wrong with " In Alcatraz" for the Mildly stupid and Hasta La Vista Baby ( with a Swartzneger voice over) for the totally stupid
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 Posted 02/21/2015  01:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list
Because if we did designated levels of Stupid, at least one level would require words to describe that we couldn't use in the Forum. We could tell you stories....
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 Posted 02/21/2015  03:26 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CelticKnot to your friends list
I apologize for hijacking this topic. If anyone's interested in more nostalgic BBS discussion, I've created a new thread in GD for this:

https://goccf.com/t/198781
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 Posted 02/21/2015  08:51 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mcshilling to your friends list

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The first BBS I ran was with my Commodore 64


That brings back memories.
next was my 8088
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 Posted 02/21/2015  10:51 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KenKat to your friends list
Page 5 on the member list baby! Page 4'ers, I'm coming for you!

And a poster here for 7 years. Where does the time go?
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 Posted 02/23/2015  8:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Joe2007 to your friends list
As the forum continues to grow it is getting easier to be a prolific poster. I know that my post count has accelerated over the past few years thank to all of the great coins that are posted daily in the U.S. Classic coin grading section.
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 Posted 03/06/2015  01:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CelticKnot to your friends list
@Joe2007, good point. With more volume comes more opportunity to post.

I've found my post count rate has increased simply because I'm looking at more forums as my interests and collections grow. I know I have my share of and "Great Pics" and such relatively worthless posts but hopefully the useful content from my keyboard is growing as well. Maybe, maybe not.
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