[ryandrake]

I remember thinking that I would reach absolute peak-coolkid if I could start and run a BBS. I even installed WWIV and DesqView to fuel the fantasy and prepare. But my parents didn't understand technology and couldn't grasp why I wanted to hook up (and pay for) a second phone line for the house. So, unfortunately I would remain a mere luser until I went off to University where the Internet was just getting popular and 10-Base-T ethernet drops to the dorm rooms were standard, and I very quickly forgot all about BBSing.

[wvenable]

When I got my first PC (a 286 with a 2400 baud modem) I had to wire my computer to the telephone line from my bedroom all the way to the kitchen. I had some very long telephone extension cable and every morning for 2 weeks my parents woke up with chest-high line running down the hallway.

After those 2 weeks, my parents decided to get me my own phone line in my room. That's also week I started running my own BBS. I ran it for several years.

Those were strange and interesting times.

[jacquesm]

Cool Kids run T1s ;)

Really Cool Kids T3s...

[dwd]

Thanks for the reminder. Those were heady days.

My first programming job out of Uni had dual ISDN to the office.

[jacquesm]

We ran all of Camarades for the first year on a dual ISDN, then came a leased line to Haarlem which was the closest fat pipe and the year after that we saturated the intercontinental backbone during a space shuttle launch. Oops. Then we moved to Canada to have sufficient bandwidth.