Recently I’ve been hit by a big wave of nostalgia. The source of that nostalgia is Twitter and Tweetups, and in particular the WichiTweeps group. It reminds me a lot of days I thought were gone – the old BBS era.
I got into BBS’s back in the day when online communication wasn’t pervasive yet. Internet access to the home wasn’t even a thought yet – there were only 10,000 hosts on the Internet back in 1987, and not a single one of them hosted a website. Tim Berners Lee hadn’t developed “The World Wide Web” yet. And being connected to another computer via a modem was a novelty at best for most people. And yes – at the tender age of 15 I was starting to get connected to BBS’es via my Amiga. I’ve always been a geek. Now I’m just an old geek with stories like “back in my day, we connected to ONE other computer at 1200 baud! And we liked it! Now you damned kids get off my lawn!”
