How'd you get into computers? (Apple II, PC clones, BBSes, CYBERSPACE)

If you used computers in the 80s and 90s you're going to love this episode.

• Apple IIe in the school computer lab
• The original Macintosh
• "I wanted an Amiga so bad!"
• The BBS scene: Wildcat, Roboboard/FX, being a SySop
• Compuserve and AOL
• Tandy 1000, 386, 486, building your own Pentium
• Fave games: Commander Keen, King’s Quest, Wolfenstein, Doom, Duke Nukem, Raptor, Apogee Games
• Our first websites: high school swim team website, snowboarding website (with a guestbook)
• Our first computer businesses

It's a fun one. ;)

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Show notes:

• PC Magazine: the forgotten world of BBS door games 
• Jon’s first computer: Compuadd
• Justin posted this on a usenet group in 1994: Absolute Future BBS!
• Justin’s first web company: Mediahead Productions
• Jon’s first web company: Creatively Aware
• Jon’s TV recommendation: Halt and Catch Fire (NY Times review)

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