http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2007/05/09/bbs-documentary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bbs-documentary A journal of geekery, music and joy Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:04:56 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2007/05/09/bbs-documentary/#comment-43358 From the BBS to the Blog: How WordPress is Like WWIV | diydollars.com Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:57:35 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2007/05/09/bbs-documentary/#comment-43358 [...] I remember being an eleven-year-old kid in New Orleans and logging onto the Shinto Shrine or The Bowling Alley BBS or The Seventh Plane. There were a bunch of BBSs that I would visit, and I would see many of the same names of other users wherever I would go. It was fun to discover new boards, and people would recommend their boards in posts all the time. (In case you think I’m weird a special case, there are other BBS fans like myself.) [...] [...] I remember being an eleven-year-old kid in New Orleans and logging onto the Shinto Shrine or The Bowling Alley BBS or The Seventh Plane. There were a bunch of BBSs that I would visit, and I would see many of the same names of other users wherever I would go. It was fun to discover new boards, and people would recommend their boards in posts all the time. (In case you think I’m weird a special case, there are other BBS fans like myself.) [...]

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