tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18628978.post9143266259079817824..comments2024-02-18T10:19:46.501-08:00Comments on Matt Mikalatos: What is the coolest thing ever?Matt Mikalatoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13279070118483678882noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18628978.post-51420904592182428252012-04-23T12:04:49.386-07:002012-04-23T12:04:49.386-07:00The $1000 was for a 9600 bps modem ...The $1000 was for a 9600 bps modem ...Tim Onoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18628978.post-74333160157818894202012-04-23T12:03:41.900-07:002012-04-23T12:03:41.900-07:00MM -- I convinced the company that I worked for to...MM -- I convinced the company that I worked for to fork out $1000 so I could connect to those BBSes even faster. I thought I was in heaven.<br /><br />Remember CompuServe? It was like the pre-internet. You could read, download, chat, play games, look at news ...<br /><br />Oh, and here's a kitty with eyes: =^..^=Tim Onoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18628978.post-5428333964661907702012-04-18T13:19:56.970-07:002012-04-18T13:19:56.970-07:00Oh, man, the comment form ate my ascii! Oh, well -...Oh, man, the comment form ate my ascii! Oh, well - follow the link - he has examples in his lessons.<br /><br />Here, we'll try a simple one - have a kitty cat:<br /><br />=^_^=Michael Mockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233321050691782148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18628978.post-39946446309538120542012-04-18T13:18:35.486-07:002012-04-18T13:18:35.486-07:00All right, here you go: dialing in to a BBS server...All right, here you go: <em>dialing in</em> to a BBS server on a 2400 Baud Modem - man, that was <em>waaaaaaay</em> faster than the old 1200 Baud models used to be! And once there, you could post messages and read other people's messages - in plain text, no avatars. No graphics at all, in fact: if you wanted graphics, you had to <a href="http://www.chris.com/ascii/" rel="nofollow">make them out of ascii characters.</a><br /><br />Let's see if that still works...<br /><br /> n .'''. <br /> .'''. .". ''' <br /> ''' / -=\ ... <br /> n |. -=.| n '...' <br /> .../-\:.===.:/-\ <br /> '...:=:|:/o\:|:=: .... <br />''. |H|.'|T|`.|H| '....' <br />'' ,'='=,-:-,='-'. <br /> :-|/o\|:|;|:|/o\|-: <br />., |'|---=======---|'| <br />;:;, .,, ..,|;_.;;..;;;..;;.|;|,,. .;. <br />:::;|___|=========================|___| ,. <br />:;:;;===| .::. .:::::. .::. |===|;;; <br />::;;:___|_|;;;;|_|;;;;;;;|_|;;;;|_|__.:::: <br />:;:;,,,/===/,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\===\::;;;; <br />l42::/===/:::::::::::::::::::::::\===\;:;: <br />================================================= <br /><br />There you go: Sacre-Couer.<br /><br />Dragging and dropping? Nope. Anything you wanted to do, you did with text commands. Even our video games were text-based. <br /><br />Oh, and that server that we dialed into? It had a 1 MB hard drive. Yes, you read that right. It was <em>really that big</em> - I mean, absolutely huge, we were never going to be able to fill up that much storage space. <br /><br />We didn't share URLs for sites; there weren't any. We shared phone numbers for BBSs and other servers. Search engines? Ha! No such thing. <br /><br />Well, you know, until we did. <br /><br />Ah, the good old days...Michael Mockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233321050691782148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18628978.post-63594925758442505222012-04-18T08:02:20.042-07:002012-04-18T08:02:20.042-07:00I remember begging my parents for a second land li...I remember begging my parents for a second land line so I could use the phone & the Internet at the same time. Oh the days…Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575161343340489046noreply@blogger.com