Bulletin Board System“Wow, there’s a blast from the past” I thought as I came across a twitter post today, “Happy Birthday BBS”.

Going to sound like an old man now, but…..that takes me back to the early-mid 90′s. A time of US Robotics external modems and the sounds of one computer talking to another. I used quite a few BBSes back then before I eventually ran one myself for a short while. Yep back in the day of file upload/download ratios and beautifully designed ASCII screens. P2P file sharing (Napster and bit torrent) was still a pipe dream (no pun intended), and the largest hard drive you could hope for was around 500MB to 1.28GB. Happy days!

If you want to take a trip down memory lane check out this post on Crunch Gear: http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/02/17/happy-birthday-bbs/ and also this great article on Wired: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/02/0216cbbs-first-bbs-bulletin-board