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Re:An old photo of a large BBS by rasz on Thursday March 12, 2026 @09:22PM (#47359601)
it was 3D Realms official BBS

https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/ScottApogee/status/159372... Scott Miller - Apogee/3D Realms Founder :

>BBS's (bulletin board systems) were the backbone of the online world before the Internet came along in 1995. Apogee teamed up with Dan Linton's BBS, called Software Creations, and we poured $200k+ into it to grow it to nearly 140 call-in nodes with a T3 (high bandwidth) line.

Re:An old photo of a large BBS by bombcar on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:05AM (#47364642)
I seem to recall that the release of DooM caused BBSs around the world to be backed up for ages.
Re:An old photo of a large BBS by mycall on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:07AM (#47364663)
I was lucky enough to have a T1 in 1995 and still think to this day that 1.544 Mbps is enough to do real work.