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[Solved] Seeking a name, from the mists of the past (lemmy.one)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the Silicon Valley / San Jose / Bay area, there was a BBS that had a hierarchical message board, Replies were ordered under posts or other replies. In the 80's this was an unusual feature of a bulletin system. The BBS was named for a character from some story. It was a hard to pronounce word/name starting with the letter 'P', and we mostly referred to the BBS as 'Pretzel' as that was a close approximation to the original word. Anyone know which BBS I am talking about?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Got it. From this list: http://bbslist.textfiles.com/408/oldschool.html

408-336-3134 Ben Lomond, CA Pyrzqxgl (1986-1987) Tané Tachyon Pyrzqxgl tree-structured discussion BBS software

I can see why you called it pretzel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

WOW Thank You sooo much!! I tried all kinds of searches and even tried to employ chatgpt to try to guess the word.