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Paltan Bazaar, Dehradun

An Evolving restaurant in Dhanaulti. I think I’ll visit it again in a few years!

Way back.. way way back when there was only dialup and the sound of a Dlink modem making screeching electric axe sounds was sheer music to the ears, there were some individuals who ran little host servers from their own homes on their expenses.

The servers hosted Bulletin Board Systems (or Services?) or BBSes, which could be accessed through Window’s Hyperterminal application, on a ASCII interface. BBSes allowed users to access a central file system to share files and chat with other users, all streaming down at a whopping throughput of 3.4 kbps.

And today I stumbled upon this dude’s site – called Mayank, he used to run a BBS called Tasveer that was one of the best around. I don’t remember what made Tasveer unique but it had a lot of users.

Ahh.. It wasn’t much, but it was 1997.