I wrote a Commodore 64 BBS that almost worked – the C64 couldn’t auto-answer the phone so I had to manually respond to an incoming call. Message board traffic became a data line in BASIC and after saving the program would break and re-run which would make that new message available to others to read. Not bad for 1983.
Of course, CompuServe email was already a thing so my little amateur hackaroo was just that.
Does FIDOnet count? Will you settle for USEnet?
Before that for me.
I wrote a Commodore 64 BBS that almost worked – the C64 couldn’t auto-answer the phone so I had to manually respond to an incoming call. Message board traffic became a data line in BASIC and after saving the program would break and re-run which would make that new message available to others to read. Not bad for 1983.
Of course, CompuServe email was already a thing so my little amateur hackaroo was just that.
That’s awesome.
I’m a bit younger but I remember being on a game forum and asking if the commodore 64 was anything like the N64.
people did not like that
Of course, I don’t have experience with those so sharing your experience is even more valuable.