@Professor 129298 wrote:
I was online back then also, but there really wasnt any internet and BBS were even a novelty at the time. My first PC was a Timex Sinclair (cassette tape memory), then I moved on to a TI 994A (Remember Bill Cosby pushing these), I also had a TRS80 from Radio Shack and a Commodore Vic20.
All of those machines were so primitive I cant imagine setting up a commercial website with those dinosaurs. I think the first real websites I built were around 1996/1997 and I had a crappy dial up modem US Robotics Speedster 14.4!
Actually in terms of computing those days actually sucked! Give me todays PCs, software and broadband!
Hehe, they did suck and I had the tape deck too. I met my husband for the first time at a “computer swap” where people were looking for new things and selling stuff. I was looking at the first hard drive and it had no box, all the parts exposed. I was asking a thousand stupid questions (I still don’t understand the answers, lol!) and my husband to be stepped up behind me and started answering.
Well, I bought the drive and I married the man. 
At home I made a wodden box to keep the drive in and put it on the table along with the tapedech and the cradle you had to put the phone in. Back then connection speed was 300 baud. My husband and I started dating via computer. We would sit and chat for hours every day – we lived a 10 hour drive apart.
Probably a pioneer in computer dating, lol!
Re. making money, if I could have figured out how to charge the ferret folk for access I would have. But I couldn’t think of how to limit access to the free folk, and I couldn’t guarantee anyone could get on the board because only one person could do it at a time.
yep, TRS80 came along and commodore and sonething portable that looked like a sewing machine. I loved the sweing machine things, they were so much better than anything before. About that time I also updated to the Hayes auto-answer modem 1200/2400 baud and felt like we were speed wizards, lol!
Elgoog, I wish my dad could have seen this too. He would have LOVED it!