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?
By the way, does anyone remember “Abort Retry Ignore BBS” a Fidonet node in the 408 area code? That was me!
wisemanzero@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Was it Pyrzqxgl, by chance? Even if not, it’s probably on the list I got it from.
waspentalive@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Yep! Thanks! You get the prize for the quickest answer and Steven gets the prize for Most complete. No, there are no actual prizes except getting to claim the title “Sleuth Extraordinaire”