Subj : network call out
To : Rocko
From : Evan Elias
Date : Wed Feb 20 2002 03:22 pm
Re: network call out
By: Rocko to Evan Elias on Wed Feb 20 2002 06:56 pm
> I can't remember, but one thing I do remember:
>
> FWJN19C -- my old Prodigy ID.
LOL... mine was EXHR08E
> Yeah, then it went CORE and PLUS. Around that time, I began to hear of
> these mystical creatures called "bulletin board systems." Didn't find one
> local to my area until my AwOL days. Quickly dropped AwOL after that.
Grin, I called a dial-up BBS for the first time a few months after I started
using Prodigy. It was a one-line WWIV board (using a version of WWIV that was
outdated even then, no less) called The Palace. Actually, it was the original
(And only) support bbs for PimpWars, which was created by someone who lived
about 20 minutes away from me.
At first, I didn't get the BBS thing at all and hated it. Then I got addicted
to TradeWars, and everything went horribly awry from there :)
>
> EE> check your credit card info until a month after you signed up, when
> EE> they went to bill you...:) ---
>
> Ah kind of like using AwOL promotional CDs to death? ;)
Sort of, just with even poorer user tracking... you could keep doing it month
after month and they'd never have any idea...
> BTW what areas did you peruse on Prodigy? I used to be in the Game Cent
> in the video games section for NES and SNES. I wandered over into the
> computer gaming section occasionally. I found the people there were much mo
> mature (and this was when I was 10).
Hmm, hard to remember. My favorites were on the Comedy boards. There were
these goofy semi-role-playing type clubs on there that were a lot of fun when I
was 12...:)
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