Comment by 💎 pista

You needed an ISP that allowed a TCP/IP connection to make that happen. If you were using terminal dial up you just dropped into a text based connection however the sysadmin set it up.

Ours just let us connect to a session that autostarted lynx and kicked you out if you tried to quit Lynx.

Nov 10 · 5 weeks ago

Poll Results

1. under 10

▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 2%

2. 10 - 20

██▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 8%

3. 20 - 30

█████▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 21%

4. 30 - 40

█████▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 20%

5. 40 - 50

████████▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 32%

6. 50 - 60

███▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 12%

7. 60 - 70

█▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 3%

8. 70 - 80

█▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 2%

9. 80 - 90

▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 0%

10. 90 - 100

▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 0%

11. over 100

▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 0%

120 votes were cast.

3 Later Comments ↓

Yeah, my nearest free dialup initially dumped you into a command prompt, from which I figured out how to get a lynx instance on what must have been a VM, even back then. While booting up, it even sent over the BIOS ram test.

But the nearest college had a lab with a couple computers with windows, and they ran Netscape. Must have been about '94?

Ahh crap, who’s the 9 year old that somehow got on here?

Original Post

Gemini Age Survey — As this came up in another thread [gemini link] let's try a small age survey for fun to see, how old the current user group of Gemini and this BBS is. So if you know someone who uses Gemini but isn't aware of this BBS, let that person know so they can take part!