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10 November 2003  

I Am So Old

Tom has a nostalgia-evoking post up about BBS culture. Sure does bring back memories. I had a very small hand in running DiSC, one of the larger Toronto-area Fido (then Opus) boards back in the day. I even interviewed Wynn Wagner, the creator of Opus for the newsletter of the ambitiously-named, but more humble in reality, Trans-Canada Sysop Network. ( I just Googled Wynn Wagner and discovered he's gay. Who knew? So was DiSC's sysop. Was I a part of some gay BBS mafia that I didn't even know about?) DiSC eventually turned into Magic, a FirstClass system, where people like a teenaged Cory Doctorow hung out. FirstClass, amazingly to me, is still around.

Anyway, do check out Tom's post, if for no other reason than the fact it contains something I never expected to see: a legitimate use of the <blink> tag.

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