content: I'm still friends with a lot of the BBSers from those days. We talk about this shit often enough.  I loved the C-NET 10.0 post/reply style BBSes, kinda like what we see today in platforms like voat. WWIV and all other IBM boards used the thread style forums, and the threading was always broken. It was hard to have more than one conversation going in a sub/message base in those systems.  I wrote  package in quickbasic 4.5 that allowed for post/reply/CNET style messaged bases in the early 90s. It worked pretty well, but my editor was complete shit so I went back to another package. It was a long long time before web forums embraced the post/reply system we see today. Early forums were such garbage.