Contest 2

[Infantrymen]

100 points for who ever can tell me what system (like this forum) people used before the internet.... During the early 80's-90's Good luck

I want the name of it (or abbreviation) and description.

[AngelBear]

A Party Line...

[brooklyn6]

lol ^

[Infantrymen]

[Grimmy]

BBS? Bulitine board (and yes, my spellerizing is horidible)

Oh waite..you said before innernet?

umm....

oh, this is a trick question...no one communicated before the invention of the innernet.

[brooklyn6]

Arpanet

[Infantrymen]

Originally Posted by Grimmy

BBS? Bulitine board (and yes, my spellerizing is horidible)

Oh waite..you said before innernet?

umm....

oh, this is a trick question...no one communicated before the invention of the innernet.

Grimmy is correct, now tell us about it. Yeah, BBSs were before the internet was active and had a face.... Arpanet was really close but I wanted to know the "system" used that was like forums...

[brooklyn6]

damnit

[Grimmy]

http://www.fanciful.org/bbs-promotio.../thebbsfaq.htm

[brooklyn6]

Ok what about the telephone hmm , smoke signals , a pen and paper

[Grimmy]

Originally Posted by brooklyn6

Ok what about the telephone hmm , smoke signals , a pen and paper

everyone knows that those are figments of imagination. The collective consciousness attempting to fill a void (nature abhoring vaccumes and all that, dontcha know?)

You see, we take the ability to communicate since the innernet to be such a basic need that those that existed prior to the innernet have built the delusional belief that comminications must have existed prior to the invention of the innernet.

[Infantrymen]

Okay Grimmy you win.

These guys have a good description:

Bulletin board system

I used to love to BBS...

That was fun. I'll give you others 20 for trying..