Natural Order Development

Back in 1988 I started a BBS in San Diego. I put out a lot of money, installed 2 separate phone lines, had state of the art 2400 baud modems and an Amiga 2000 with nearly 100 MB of disk space and a eye popping 2 MB of RAM. I coded and tested for hundreds of hours. Finally it was ready and I put it online. I published in the local computer magazines that it was up and running. Then I sat and watched it for hours waiting for someone to come use what I created for them. And I waited, and I waited and ... well you get the picture.

After days of waiting I got a call, they didn't sign up for an account. Then I finally got my first user. He posted to an area and shared a file. I answered him instantly. Then I waited some more. I can remember the first 10 people on that system. A few of them are still friends today.

And again. I have a nearly complete system. But this place has far more then my original BBS every had. Yet again, I find I am sitting here waiting for that first hit. Excited by the idea of the possible community that will form.

Well in the end my BBS in San Diego had 10 phone lines 14400 baud modems and over a hundred regular members who logged in and chatted almost daily and about 500 odd total members who actually came back once a month or so. It was a great time. I expect this place will do the same.

So here I am laughing at myself because I am waiting and checking every few minutes to see what activity has happened. Even though I know almost nothing about this place is completed. I'll probably put in a few thousand more hours of work before I am really happy with this place. Still having some folks around to at least share the results with will be fun.

Hope you like the possibilities enough to come back around from time to time.