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minus-squarequindraco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·11 months agoAll BBSes were on the internet.
minus-squareTroy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoNo. Most were direct dial servers. Some used FIDOnet for inter-BBS messaging. Source: I hosted one until 1997.
minus-squarebdonvr@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoThat’s not true, you had to dial their phone number directly back in the day
minus-squareBaby Shoggoth [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoThis is the most incorrect statement i’ve seen on the internet in a good while
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoI mean… It’s technically incorrect… But not in, like, a metaphysical sense.
minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThe point of the internet was to be global, which BBSs were not.
All BBSes were on the internet.
No. Most were direct dial servers. Some used FIDOnet for inter-BBS messaging.
Source: I hosted one until 1997.
That’s not true, you had to dial their phone number directly back in the day
This is the most incorrect statement i’ve seen on the internet in a good while
I mean…
It’s technically incorrect…
But not in, like, a metaphysical sense.
The point of the internet was to be global, which BBSs were not.