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Examples
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Before the internet came to town it was modems and BBSes.
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At the time, other services (smaller ISPs, BBSes, groups like The Well, Prodigy, Compuserve) were offering real standards-compliant e-mail and the full Worldwide Web experience which rapidly eroded AOL's dominance.
Gmail Makes Hotmail Switching Easier | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I developed “doors” — basically single player text based online games for BBSes.
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I was on the internet in 1991, and using BBSes before that.
25 things meme da_lj 2009
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Only crackpots and a few liberal posters on BBSes even try to bring it up anymore.
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What, no-one ever chatted on BBS back in the “pre-Internet” era (i.e. when BBSes were more used than Internet)?
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But, then, that was part of early online culture, where you might send a message to Usenet and see no replies for days, or log onto BBSes with ten users who were more interested in playing door games than chatting.
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You dial into BBSes; you read messages; you hit reply.
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As your relationship with Emilia deepens you find yourself hopscotching across multiple BBSes, using phone codes to steal long distance so you can call the ones that are further away.
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Sure, flame wars have been around since the early days of the Internet — and before that on the old dial-up BBSes.
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