Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 24 September 2006 14:16, Steve Lamb wrote: >> filtering Webforums are to communications as email/newsgroups/BBSes were in >> the mid-80s. Why anyone would want to go back 20 years is beyond me.
> Even BBS's had offline QWK packet readers for offline message reading...those
> often had more features than the BBS's internal message reader, and got all
> the phone line tie ups out of the way in advance...
That was in the early 90s. Mid-80s, when I started, 300bps modems were
high speed and BBSes were often run on C=64s, A128s with the occasional CoCo
thrown in for good measure. :)
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