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RE: Early online communities ? - 10/21/2005 10:27:34 AM

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I think I got my first modem around 1989. It was 2400 baud and could be used to connect to single line bulletin board systems (so if someone else was on it, you got a busy signal) that were all running off the same format/software (someone here might remember what it was called). It had forums you could post in and you could send email. People set up their single-line BBS' usually to cover niche topics. One of them was BDSM. It was all text back then, of course.

Soon after there were multi-line BBSes, most running off something called MajorBBS I think. They'd have 18 or 24 lines, some of the bigger ones had 64 -- usually people all dialing in from the same geographic location (because it was dial up). That was 4800 baud or so. There were adult multi-line BBSes at that time also. Not a lot of wankers or online fakes though -- because it was all local, there would be "meets" or get togethers and people generally met face to face.

I also remember that back then, the ratio of men to women was 15:1. You can imagine what the guys thought when one of the few women was also kinky.

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RE: Early online communities ? - 10/21/2005 8:52:07 PM

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Ah, how 'bout the EARLY 80's?

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RE: Early online communities ? - 10/21/2005 9:26:48 PM

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Wow! What memories. I can remember accessing the universities linked internet around 1980(?). We used a DOS based program called "Kermit" that crashed all the time and was at the mercy of censures. In addition, searches for information or user groups took hours and hours and hours. After that, one had to always remember the exact DOS based address (not www) along with the university that was the host for the bulletin board.

CompuServe and Prodigy were by far easier but limited to only those subscribers. We have come a long way in 25 years!

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RE: Early online communities ? - 10/21/2005 9:44:34 PM

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Wow! What memories. I can remember accessing the universities linked internet around 1980(?). We used a DOS based program called "Kermit" that crashed all the time and was at the mercy of censures. In addition, searches for information or user groups took hours and hours and hours. After that, one had to always remember the exact DOS based address (not www) along with the university that was the host for the bulletin board.

CompuServe and Prodigy were by far easier but limited to only those subscribers. We have come a long way in 25 years!

I remember Kermit well. One time I had a one megabyte file that had to be uploaded from my PC to the university computer so I could run it through SPSS and the only way to do the transfer was by modem. I set up Kermit, connected and started sending data at about 11 at night, by 8 the next morning it was sending its last packet.

We certainly have come a long way.

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RE: Early online communities ? - 10/22/2005 10:42:17 AM

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Wow! What memories. I can remember accessing the universities linked internet around 1980(?). We used a DOS based program called "Kermit" that crashed all the time and was at the mercy of censures. In addition, searches for information or user groups took hours and hours and hours. After that, one had to always remember the exact DOS based address (not www) along with the university that was the host for the bulletin board.

CompuServe and Prodigy were by far easier but limited to only those subscribers. We have come a long way in 25 years!

I remember Kermit well. One time I had a one megabyte file that had to be uploaded from my PC to the university computer so I could run it through SPSS and the only way to do the transfer was by modem. I set up Kermit, connected and started sending data at about 11 at night, by 8 the next morning it was sending its last packet.

We certainly have come a long way.

Kermit was My first access experience, as well. What a dinosaur!

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RE: Early online communities ? - 10/22/2005 10:48:57 AM

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my first online experience was a little different...when in college in the early 80s i worked at a Holiday Inn...we were able to send messages back and forth to other Holiday Inns on what they called, and still call, the Holidex system...well, when we'd get bored at work, we'd send messages to other hotels...and i wound up dating someone who worked at another Holiday Inn about 50 miles away...knowing this, if i'd had a brain in my head, i'd have invested in AOL at the beginning...damn!

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RE: Early online communities ? - 10/22/2005 3:48:38 PM

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my kids were the first to find a BBS (early 1994 i think) -- one called the "Sin Bin". Well -- being the overly protective mom i was (am?) i hopped on there to see what it was all about. The rest, as they say, is history..lol.

Oh..the name "The Sin Bin" was a hockey term..<g>

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RE: Early online communities ? - 11/5/2005 1:01:32 PM

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Something most people don't speak of: there was a BDSM D/s community BEFORE there was the internet! GASP! Hard to believe, but very true.

Yeah good ol mail and magazine response outside of the bar scene.

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RE: Early online communities ? - 11/5/2005 1:49:59 PM

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My future husband discovered the alt.sex.bondage group in 1990 when I was studying aboard and that where he and I both started learning a bit more about these things.

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