Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoWard Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1331arrow-down17
arrow-up1324arrow-down1external-linkWard Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78arstechnica.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareHikermick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·16 days agoComputer nerd me loved dialing up BBS’s on my TRS-80 CoCo with 16k RAM. My parents on the other hand hated getting the phone bill. 30 cents a minute in 1980 dollars was steep
minus-squareMs. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·15 days agoLooks like $1.20 in today’s money, assuming usd. That would add up fast lol, I’d have gotten banned from the computer instantly
Computer nerd me loved dialing up BBS’s on my TRS-80 CoCo with 16k RAM. My parents on the other hand hated getting the phone bill. 30 cents a minute in 1980 dollars was steep
Looks like $1.20 in today’s money, assuming usd. That would add up fast lol, I’d have gotten banned from the computer instantly