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I used a BBS.

My wife built and sysoped one.

And yes, that's how we met.

Not an uncommon story, I suspect.. but, Roger?

You lost me. What?

He's indicating that the story may not be an uncommon one, but gambling, anyway, that you may be someone named Roger who he knows has the same story.

See ... this is what happens when one is raised by wolves. One has no idea about common social conventions.

Wolves ... or raised in Oklahoma in the pre-internet era. Same thing, really.

Only partly related, but I am too young to have used a BBS in Europe. When I came to Taiwan three years ago, I was delighted to see open Telnet sessions on many CS students' computers, browsing a BBS, in Big5 encoding nonetheless.

I love how local computer customs differ.

How about if they RAN a BBS.

My mom would not shell out for a second phone line. :(

There is such quintessential geek pathos in this little phrase.

I ran a bbs. Even had a couple of paid members. I'm embarrassed to say that I can't even remember what it was called now.