# BBS

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbs/54433
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 14, 2001, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbs/54433 "2001-02-14T06:01:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![cykrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@cykrider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cykrider)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2001, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbs/54433/1 "2001-02-14T06:01:53Z")

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Whatever happened to the good 'ole days of the BBS? I miss them. Any of them still around? If so, what do they got?

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### Author: ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2001, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbs/54433/2 "2001-02-14T08:30:40Z")

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What happened? Er. Well, the internet happened, that’s what happened.

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### Author: ![Nimue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbs/54433/3 "2001-02-14T18:51:40Z")

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I used to run a BBS, from 1991 till 1995 or so. (I.e. when the Internet really started catching on.) It was great fun! Still have a lot of friends that I met through that BBS.

I think there are still some BBS’s around, but needless to say they’ve lost a lot of users to the Internet. I don’t know how much the format has changed. The silly games and message boards are probably still there, but I’d say the file transfer boards and the days of upload-download ratios are probably long gone.