On: Ask YC: How many people here were regional BBS use...

[dgabriel]

I was totally into the BBS scene in high school. There were three run by friends within our local calling area, and I remember dialing & redialing each of the three, getting a busy signal, cursing my timing, and trying again.

I spent waaaaay too much time playing TradeWars back then...

[Bluem00 → dgabriel]

TradeWars is still alive and kicking if you're interested. Now you just need a telnet client and a server. I assume you have the former, so here are some links to the latter: http://oregonsouth.com/ice9/ and http://www.thestardock.com/

[sam → dgabriel]

Wow, I haven't thought about trade wars in forever. I used to play back on "The Berlin Wall" in Berlin, CT.

(P)ort (T)rade Buy (E)quipment

That's about all I remember

[thorax → dgabriel]

Random note: my hacking career really began writing/selling scripts to automate TradeWars turns.