If you are under 30 or are not nerdy enough to know what a BBS was, then… Whadidiz homie! It’s getting wack here. Let’s bail and get bent somewhere bumpin’, where a playa can chillax. See you on myspace. Trill.<\/p>\n
Good, now that they have gone, I can talk to the people are old enough and geeky enough to remember the wiggly line of history that connects modems-and-bulletin-boards to email-and-newsgroups to ftp-sites-and-Archie to home-pages-and-Google to blogs-and-podcasts.<\/p>\n
Today is the 20th anniversary of my initial registration to the SAC-64 BBS (Telephone number: 382 4631, available 24 hours<\/strong>). It is the 20th anniversary of my first email (or “message” as it was known then.)<\/p>\n Twenty years of being online – I don’t know which feeling is stronger: pride, embarrassment or old age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is the 20th anniversary of my first email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-doubleplus-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}