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Re:Ward Christensen has died (BBS and XMODEM fame) by INTPenis on Sunday October 13, 2024 @03:26PM (#41830794)
It's the standard antithesis of instant gratification culture. We had to actually wait for things to happen, to download, to render, to dial.

Finding something online was a journey and it's often the journey that teaches you more than the destination.

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Re:Ward Christensen has died (BBS and XMODEM fame) by flyinghamster on Sunday October 13, 2024 @04:01PM (#41831057)
Even when you had a networked forum like FidoNet's Echomail (or Usenet, for that matter), it would take time for messages to propagate through the network - and they could sometimes fail to be delivered.
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Re:Ward Christensen has died (BBS and XMODEM fame) by asjo on Monday October 14, 2024 @11:29AM (#41838426)
Paging sysop... paging sysop... paging sysop...

:-)

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