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ygmelnikova on July 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope)

Before the interweb was popular they had this little thing called a BBS and RoboBOARD/FX

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboBOARD/FX

gscott on July 8, 2012 [–]

Here is San Diego at the height of BBS'ing with about 1,100 boards very few used RoboBoard. Must have been much more popular in Canada.

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