Re:Oh, jeez... (Score 3)

If you "missed out" on BBSes, dont sweat it -- you didnt miss anything good. What we've got now is *WAAAAAAY* better...so much better it's not even funny. And that's the truth. Wow, as a former Sysop of a BBS in the S. California region (1983-1994), I really resent this comment. Obviously this person was a) too young to remember the days of BBSs, or b) was digging trenches back in the late 80's. I, too, was very young when I started my RCP/M (13 yrs), but I must say that running that BBS helped me technically more than just about anything I ever did. You see, a 386 or 486 is not old. Try working on an Z80-based S100 bus system with 64k (yes, that KILOBYTES) of memory. Try hacking CP/M to remove dangerous commands from the user interface (like DEL and REN) so people couldn't hack your system. Try getting something as complex as ZCPR3 working on that beast, when you've got only 4-8k of memory to work with. Assembly language was all you had! C++ (or even C for that matter)? Forget it. I was writing 8080 and Z80 assembly back in 1984. Running a BBS or RCP/M back in those days too dedication and a lot of discipline. Those are the things that I learned during my late teenage years and early into my 20s. And yes, those things have helped me tremendously in my career even today at the ripe old age of 31. So to sum it up, you are an idiot... go mess with your plug-and-play Windows system so you can feel like a bigshot. The rest of us will enjoy looking back on a time when us "computer geeks" *really* had some experience under our hats.