[plug] ISPs in WA

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

Quoting Gregory Orange <gregory.orange at metoceanengineers.com>:

> Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> > Quoting doodli <doodli at westnet.com.au>:
> > 
> >> simon wrote:
> >>> I remember Vegie down at Omen telling me pretty much the same thing. He
> >> slowly
> >>> watched his beautiful BBS disappear in a cloud of ISP, and then watched
> >> his
> >>> not-so-pretty-but-still-pretty-cool ISP get fast quick, before
> collapsing
> >>> under its own weight.
> >>>
> >>> All the time all he wanted was his beautiful BBS back :)
> >> Omen BBS. Now there are some very good memories. First contact with 
> >> Internet as such, extra 10$ month above the bbs fees, but don't quote me.
> > 
> > <sigh> I want to play MajorMUD again =) Good old WAOL and MGM days ...
> > 
> > Tomasz
> 
> Mmmm a bit of TradeWars action on WAOL would go down well (: What ever 
> happened to BBSs anyway - did they all completely fade away as the WWW 
> waded in?
> 
> Greg.

More or less; people realised that the net was cheaper (or the same price per
month) and connected you to a far larger world. The chats etc were just a
prelude to IRC where you could talk to even more people, and online gaming was
growing over the 'net rather than the sturdy IPX lans we'd built =)

Shame; if anyone has mud lying around, give me a yell =) I'd like to consider
reverse engineering the sucker, maybe even give it a GUI and bring it to the
modern age..

Tomasz