sunny donkey herder on Nostr: bulletin board system! The sysop (I can’t understand why autocorrect is having such ...

bulletin board system! The sysop (I can’t understand why autocorrect is having such a hard time with all these obsolete tech terms, SMDH) ran bbs software on a spare 286, with as many modems plugged into it as they could afford the phone lines for. Then your local nerds would call in and make up phrases like “lol” for “laughing out loud.” I feel as old as Elrond!