104: Bulletin Board Systems

Parlez-vous ATDT15014521700? In the days before the internet, there was the BBS…and for some weird and probably unhealthy reason, your host wanted to run one of his own. A tale replete with BBSs, MIBs, not nearly enough +++ATH0, and numerous other unfortunate abbreviations. (1:15:38)

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Me, BBS’ing. A recent photo. You can’t unsee it. (If y’all sign up as patrons, I promise I’ll never post anything like this again.)