Just thought I would say hello, it's been around 26 years since I was last on a BBS :)

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Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: Bagwaa to All on Thu Jul 03 2025 10:35 pm

Just thought I would say hello, it's been around 26 years since I was last on a BBS :)

Welcome! :)

Nightfox

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Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: Bagwaa to All on Thu Jul 03 2025 10:35 pm

Just thought I would say hello, it's been around 26 years since I was last o

welcome bad d00d
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Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: MRO to Bagwaa on Thu Jul 03 2025 09:23 pm

Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: Bagwaa to All on Thu Jul 03 2025 10:35 pm

Just thought I would say hello, it's been around 26 years since I was last o

welcome bad d00d

and welcome back!
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Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: MRO to Bagwaa on Thu Jul 03 2025 22:18:43

welcome bad d00d

and welcome back!

Haha thanks :)

bagwaa

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Bagwaa wrote to All <=-

Just thought I would say hello, it's been around 26 years since I was
last on a BBS :)

Welcome back!



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Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: Bagwaa to All on Thu Jul 03 2025 10:35 pm

Just thought I would say hello, it's been around 26 years since I was last o BBS :)

Welcome!

How long since you first used a BBS :)

What brought you back after such a long absence?

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Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: Boraxman to Bagwaa on Sat Jul 05 2025 19:27:55

How long since you first used a BBS :)

What brought you back after such a long absence?

I think it was around 1993 ish, I remember I was still in school, so must be around that time. I always preferred BBSes over the internet, I don't know why but it just felt very different.

I would love someone to be able to explain why BBSes felt so much better back then? (and even still) - maybe because connections feel more personal and meaningful, like chatting to some guy in a bar or something?

bagwaa

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I've always liked them more, specifically because of the door games. It was fun to get online and play your turns on something ( like BRE or Tradewars ), and wait in suspense for the next day to roll around and see what damage the other's did to you, or if your attacks did well and stuff. It was also neat to talk to other people in the city over the chat functions and then the BBS meet ups that we used to have. Those were all fun!


That_One_Guy
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Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: TOG to Bagwaa on Sat Jul 05 2025 11:21 pm

I've always liked them more, specifically because of the
door games. It was fun to get online and play your turns on something
( like BRE or Tradewars ), and wait in suspense for the next day to
roll around and see what damage the other's did to you, or if your
attacks did well and stuff. It was also neat to talk to other people
in the city over the chat functions and then the BBS meet ups that
we used to have. Those were all fun!

yep those days are over though. they will never be the same again.
i couldnt see us having a bbs get together unless i showed up and i would be sitting on top of a dunk tank. honestly, though. i couldn't think of a more boring thing to do than to get the bunch of us together. it wasnt like that
in the dialup days.
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Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: Bagwaa to Boraxman on Sat Jul 05 2025 21:00:18

I would love someone to be able to explain why BBSes felt so much better back then? (and even still) - maybe because connections feel more personal and meaningful, like chatting to some guy in a bar or something?

I think you just answered your own question, which I agree with.

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Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: Bagwaa to Boraxman on Sat Jul 05 2025 09:00 pm

Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: Boraxman to Bagwaa on Sat Jul 05 2025 19:27:55

How long since you first used a BBS :)

What brought you back after such a long absence?

I think it was around 1993 ish, I remember I was still in school, so must be around that time. I always preferred BBSes over the internet, I don't know but it just felt very different.

I would love someone to be able to explain why BBSes felt so much better bac then? (and even still) - maybe because connections feel more personal and meaningful, like chatting to some guy in a bar or something?

bagwaa

I think simply because it was all we had, and there wasn't as much on the Internet as there was today, and BBS's were more alive. For me, I liked the locality of it, the ANSI graphics and colour and the exploration. The other thing, for me, was I had friends logging onto the same BBS's, so there was this sense of community, of a shared experience.

The 'net today is so big, you feel like a minnow in the ocean, whereas the BBS is a much smaller scale, a much more...human...scale. I can get to know most people here, whereas on reddit, there are thousands and thousands, and while you might get to know people, you're in the midst of a massive crowd. BBS's are more intimate.

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Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: TOG to Bagwaa on Sat Jul 05 2025 23:21:58

I've always liked them more, specifically because of the door games. It was fun to get online and play your turns on something ( like BRE or Tradewars ), and wait in suspense for the next day to roll around and see what damage the other's did to you, or if your attacks did well and stuff. It was also neat to talk to other people in the city over the chat functions and then the BBS meet ups that we used to have. Those were all fun!

100% agree, I remember in the 90s being amazed that I could talk to someone in another country over something like Fidonet without paying for long distance calls, was kind of crazy at the time :)

I never really did play Tradewars or BRE, I was way to invested in LORD, maybe I should give those a go now that I am here :)

Rich

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Bagwaa wrote to TOG <=-

100% agree, I remember in the 90s being amazed that I could talk to someone in another country over something like Fidonet without paying
for long distance calls, was kind of crazy at the time :)

I hear you - in the first half of the '90s, you could get mail through
the backbones with just an overnight call. In the later half of the
90s, I discovered internet/Fido transport, and set my system to poll my
uplink several times a day. Getting mail the same day from around the
world from an old DOS box in the corner was an incredible leap.






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Re: Re: Greetings from NottinghamBBS.com in the UK
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Bagwaa on Fri Jul 11 2025 10:40:48

I hear you - in the first half of the '90s, you could get mail through
the backbones with just an overnight call. In the later half of the
90s, I discovered internet/Fido transport, and set my system to poll my
uplink several times a day. Getting mail the same day from around the
world from an old DOS box in the corner was an incredible leap.

It also blows my mind that a community still exists in the BBS space, back in the day everyone seemed to know everyone "locally" over a handful of BBSes, it seems there are a few of us left internationally so that sense of community is still here.

bagwaa

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