• gettogethers was: BBS Doc

    From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Wed Jul 1 20:31:00 2015
    Quoting Daryl Stout to Matt on 06-29-15 10:06 <=-

    Years ago, when we had at least a dozen BBS's in the Little Rock
    area alone, users and Sysops would gather at a local restaurant every
    so often, to put names to faces, recruit new users to their BBS's, etc. Sadly, those days around here are long gone.

    We had that sort of thing here in Rochester, too... back in the old
    days... :) Reinforced the sense of community... :) And at least one
    bbs grew out of a local computer interest group...

    And the COOKING echo picnics are a different form of the same idea...
    getting together in person, putting faces to names, and real-time interaction... ;)

    ttyl neb

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to NANCY BACKUS on Thu Jul 2 11:21:16 2015
    Nancy,

    We had that sort of thing here in Rochester, too... back in the old NB>days... :) Reinforced the sense of community... :) And at least one NB>bbs grew out of a local computer interest group...

    I remember at one of the gatherings, a female Sysop (who ran an adult
    based BBS (i.e. "R" content) would be "carding" potential users.

    And the COOKING echo picnics are a different form of the same idea... NB>getting together in person, putting faces to names, and real-time NB>interaction... ;)

    The funny part is that you make a mental image of the person you type with...or as in the case of ham radio, talk with. But, when you finally
    meet them in person, they don't look at all like you pictured them!!

    Daryl

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