I was there.
@sjvn "you people wouldn't believe" - oh, the nerve of this guy! Netscape, AltaVista? phew, that's modern time - I still remember BBS, FidoNet and Usenet over UUCP...
@denix #fidonet 2:2448/60.13 ๐Ÿ™‚
@mok24 @denix
#fidonet
2:2480/92.29 back in the days
2:240/5824 (and .1) today
@acn128 it is possible to be part of the #fidonet even today? I didnยดt know that ... ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
@mok24
Yes, it's possible. It is quite small, but running.
There are also other networks like fsxNet, which is more active.
My BBS, Imzadi Box, can be reached at box.imzadi.de (telnet and web).
OpenXP (a CrossPoint fork) also works on Linux and one can poll via IP :-)

@denix @sjvn Iโ€™ve been โ€œonlineโ€ since using a DEC PDP-1103 using a hardwired physical dialup beginning in late 1979 via a GTE Sylvania โ€œintranetโ€. We were all connected to transfer our lab results from remote locations back to the home base in Towanda NY. Baud rate was really really really low.

I remember using DOS, later Spry Mosaic w Windows and connecting to NASA using a fast 1200 baud modem in 1990 - 1992 or so. Fun times.

@denix @sjvn I am so old that the first computer I used was a mainframe at the University of Colorado Denver with punch cards and Fortran.
@cherylgk @denix @sjvn The first computer I used was a timesharing system run by my school district, with which I communicated on a Model 33 teletype and which I could program in BASIC. And then, two years later, I started at Colorado University (Boulder) and I got to use the CDC 6400 with punch cards and Fortran.
@cherylgk @denix @sjvn
CalState Hayward - same - I thought hot card readers were a gift from the gods , also bad coffee in the basement coffee machine - (I'm nostalgia gagging)