A little bit of Grandpa and Grandma's past.
Modems, wArEz, and ANSI art: Remembering BBS life at 2400bps

I had that exact modem. Actually, my first modem was 300 baud.

Hayes was the De facto standard during those days. We had several BBS's in our area. Bard's Tavern was the best. I think he had 5 phone lines coming in.

There was also compuserve, but the number was long distance, so I didn't go on there very much.

Hold on a minute, while I go run those dang kids outta my yard!

I had a modem too! But I'm not quite that old, my first modem was 14.4kbps... tried to start my own BBS at one point but that fell apart when my parents didn't want me keeping the computer on all night

(like it seriously even takes that much electricity! we could have afforded it! man, I'm still pissed about that)

I always show my age when this stuff comes up.

I bought the 300 baud modem so I could upload my programs to the 370 mainframe. Back then, I didn't even have any error correction protocol. After the mainframe captured the code, you'd have to dial up, logon, bring up a line editor and go through the program to make sure there wasn't any communications errors that trashed out your code. I usually just submitted it for compile and when I got an error, I'd know where the com error had occurred.

Well remember the bbs days on a 1200 baud modem Odin. lolol

Still enjoy ANSI art still.

I didn't get online until 2000, but I remember usenet well. It's unfortunate that it has become a yahoo group and the board I frequented might have one post a year, and it's spam.

My first ever graphic design work assignment was designing an ANSI splash page for a BBS. I didn't get paid... I think I was 12 or 13 at the time.