My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop
I have a lot of fond memories of my time in the BBS scene. As much as I love the internet it's a very different creature and you really lose the local/community aspect.<p>My dream was that we'd eventually get a similar local BBS culture back in the form of small neighborhood wireless mesh networks offering forums along with LAN gaming and P2P file sharing - instead we got things like facebook groups, subreddits, and Nextdoor