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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
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