Virtually Here

The BBS community experienced a tremendous growth and popularity and had many die-hard followers that made significant independent contributions to enhance the rather basic functionality it provided. But it was still only a tool made available to a select few - the people that cared enough about installing and using a modem and sacrificing their phone line while they were ‘online’.

This sense of exclusivity strengthened the community in a way and once again there was a common ground/interest that bound people together and provided a platform for communication. We ‘chatted’, we ‘emailed’ and we played ‘non-real-time-on-line-games’ (who needed fancy graphics - or colors for that matter?) . We were in essence surfing the internet but not in real-time. Something that now years later proves to be almost impossible to explain for the Tweens of the internet-era.

But the days of the BBS were numbered as approaching at a lightning speed at over1200 baud was - the internet.

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