Mid-1980's Textfiles and the World as It Was Then
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A nostalgic look back at mid-1980s textfiles and the world at that time.
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4 months ago
Reminds me of the days when I had Procomm Plus on redial waiting for someone to log-off a BBS so I could get on to play TradeWars, LORD, and/or read whatever was new that people had uploaded
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