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AaronM · 05-10-2002, 10:07 PM

I thought he said oldschool?

Back in the day....There were no banners. Everything was BBS style and done in ASCII. You could charge per month, per minute, per file, or per download size. People read descriptions of what they were gonna download then they downloaded it...no thumbnail previews.

I remember all the old nasty McHenry BBS shit that was floating around. That was good money with very little effort. The challenge I had was getting the phone company to run all the lines into my place for the dial up's. I also had a 64k ISDN line brought is for those who wanted to telnet into my box.

Getting members was easy as hell too. I just advertised in the local swingers papers and set up forums for them all to meet and chat in....just like GFY has done for us. Geeks were easy to get too... Just add a couple of L.O.R.D. (Legend of the Red Dragon) games to the BBS and they would flock to you just to play them.

And you all though I was a newbie photographer. Shame on you.

05-10-2002, 10:07 PM
AaronM GFY Royality ;) Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: ┌∩┐ ◣_◢ ┌∩┐ Posts: 46,922	I thought he said oldschool? Back in the day....There were no banners. Everything was BBS style and done in ASCII. You could charge per month, per minute, per file, or per download size. People read descriptions of what they were gonna download then they downloaded it...no thumbnail previews. I remember all the old nasty McHenry BBS shit that was floating around. That was good money with very little effort. The challenge I had was getting the phone company to run all the lines into my place for the dial up's. I also had a 64k ISDN line brought is for those who wanted to telnet into my box. Getting members was easy as hell too. I just advertised in the local swingers papers and set up forums for them all to meet and chat in....just like GFY has done for us. Geeks were easy to get too... Just add a couple of L.O.R.D. (Legend of the Red Dragon) games to the BBS and they would flock to you just to play them. And you all though I was a newbie photographer. Shame on you.