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  • stormgren@obsidianmoon.comS stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

    @foone Press ESC twice to continue...

    Also, if your're old enough for the BBS thing, you probably also need to schedule a colonoscopy.

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    @Stormgren @foone Interestingly enough, I just read about mailboxes in Taiwan, still active today with more than a million users.... 😳

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    • domi@donotsta.reD domi@donotsta.re

      @foone@digipres.club i knew what a BBS was at the ripe age of 12... but you're not a cop now, are you?

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      @domi @foone I never used any BBSes because my parents wouldn't let me have a modem. They were always worried about me driving the phone bill through the roof and missing important phone calls. When I moved out, BBSes weren't really very interesting anymore because the Internet was exploding.

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      • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

        Setting up age verification for my BBS

        It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

        flun1tr4z3p4m@mas.toF This user is from outside of this forum
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        #42

        @foone touché 😆

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        • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

          Setting up age verification for my BBS

          It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

          lancejz@mastodon.socialL This user is from outside of this forum
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          @foone the people that remember what a BBS is are dying of old age.

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          • doskel@masto.doskel.netD doskel@masto.doskel.net

            @domi @foone (ftr this is knowledge that never goes away, i was born in '09 and actively ran a bbs, albeit one over packet radio rather than IP, and i have several friends younger than me who know of them)

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            @doskel @domi @foone I found out my middle/high school network didn't block Telnet or SSH (because what underpaid grade school IT staff is gonna bother with that?) so I spent a lot of time in like 2016 playing Trade Wars 2002 and such in class lol

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            • domi@donotsta.reD domi@donotsta.re

              @littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network @foone@digipres.club it's okay

              this is just why i don't tell people how old I am. i should just adopt some fake truth, it's not like you could tell that i wasn't born in 1992 given the amount of stupid trivia i amassed ,_,

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              @domi @foone @littlefox "I was using windows 95 when I was 12" puts you even earlier than 1992!

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              • ingalovinde@embracing.spaceI ingalovinde@embracing.space

                @domi @foone @littlefox "I was using windows 95 when I was 12" puts you even earlier than 1992!

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                @IngaLovinde @domi @foone but I also used Windows 95 when I was 12 o.o

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                • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                  Setting up age verification for my BBS

                  It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                  #47

                  @foone you can also ask them to go and register a CompuServe account using a special link.

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                  • domi@donotsta.reD domi@donotsta.re

                    @foone@digipres.club i knew what a BBS was at the ripe age of 12... but you're not a cop now, are you?

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                    @domi @foone

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                    • littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.networkL littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network

                      @IngaLovinde @domi @foone but I also used Windows 95 when I was 12 o.o

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                      #49

                      @littlefox @domi @foone me too!

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                      • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                        Setting up age verification for my BBS

                        It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                        @foone I connected to BBSes using native ISDN in my teens some time around 2012 or so

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                        • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                          Setting up age verification for my BBS

                          It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                          #51

                          @foone citadel, one hopes.

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                          • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                            Setting up age verification for my BBS

                            It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                            @foone Ahh, yes. Pepperidge farms remembers giving his mom a heart attack with the bill for a two hour phone call to a now-infamous german BBS in 1987. Also remembers tracking down a captain crunch whistle after the savage & reflectively probably well deserved beating he endured over said bill.

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                            • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                              Setting up age verification for my BBS

                              It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                              @foone @oneguynick

                              Don't know what BBS is ... i m over 60 !

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                              • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                                Setting up age verification for my BBS

                                It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                                @foone But I ran a BBS out of my parents garage when I was 15. 🤔

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                                • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                                  Setting up age verification for my BBS

                                  It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                                  #55

                                  @foone 2400 club!

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                                  • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                                    Setting up age verification for my BBS

                                    It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                                    @foone That reminds me of the age checks in Leisure Suit Larry.

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                                    Age Verification Quiz for Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, for the original, VGA and Reloaded version.

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                                    • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                                      Setting up age verification for my BBS

                                      It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                                      @foone

                                      Most of us in that club are closer to pensionable age...

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                                      • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                                        Setting up age verification for my BBS

                                        It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                                        #58

                                        @foone

                                        Oh yeah! I remember when BBS’s were listed in the yellow pages.

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                                        • foone@digipres.clubF foone@digipres.club

                                          Setting up age verification for my BBS

                                          It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

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                                          #59

                                          @foone

                                          Related age verification option: Knowing that seeing “NO CARRIER” on a screen had nothing to do with mobile phone coverage.

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