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		rasz 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An old photo of a large BBS (2022) 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.

mycall 16 days ago | [–]

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.

bombcar 16 days ago | [–]

I seem to recall that the release of DooM caused BBSs around the world to be backed up for ages.

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