What did you use your computer for, before the internet?

[4pLaY]

My Amiga ran a BBS for years. If i could go back to those days i would in a heartbeat! the internett is nowhere near as fun.

[4pLaY]

I totally agree!

I used mine for BBSing, running my BBS and games. I also did some school work on it for college. Kindwords was a good word processor.

I also noticed how unproductive people started to become once they made the "switch" to the Internett, gone were the days of coding or doing other productive things with theyr computers (myself included).

[4pLaY]

you can and l have

No i cant, when i closed shop finaly in 2001 i had all but closed the dialup nodes and even the telnet nodes got very few "calls", its just not the same when there is 2/3 users telneting in a week to take a peak 5min before dropping out. There was a whole society on the BBSes with lots of nice people and friendship made! the only thing that comes close to this today are forums like amiga.org, but its still far from what it was back then.

[4pLaY]

BBS for me had alot more personal interaction. Though AO comes close.
It was always interesting who was calling in at the same time I was logged on. Some called from some distance.
The local BBS I was the SubOP for the Amiga section. Always nice meeting other users in the area.
A friend I made the day I moved into my college dorm ran a BBS on a C64 and 3 1581 drives. Never expected to meet another C64 user at college, much less two doors down.

Exactly, it was another world and it was much easier to find someone local and acctualy make some real life friends as well, to this day i still have a few real life friends that i meet through my BBS .