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  • A question about 90s BBS'

    From BBS ( /u/Syntaxerror999 https://www.reddit.com/user/Syntaxerror999 ) to All on Fri Jun 6 18:42:44 2025

    My experience with a BBS was fairly short. I got a new PC (Pentium 100), bought a modem, and a friend showed me a BBS. It has the standard features Id heard about such services having, but I could also play Doom 2 over it.
    I used it for a few months, then tried this "inter net" thing and that was about it.
    The BBS used a "credit" system for logon time as well as per (forget data measurement) of the file size of something you wanted to download (barring some free stuff). Of course you bought the credits.
    Was this kind of practice normal in this era? submitted by /u/Syntaxerror999 [link] [comments]