According to the media, who uses statistics that nobody can verify, "the majority of voters are opposed to the military operation in Iran."

But according to a joesbbs.com voting topic, 100% of voters support it. Don't google it, because the left doesn't want you to know about joesbbs.com.

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Aaron Thomas wrote to All <=-

According to the media, who uses statistics that nobody can verify,
"the majority of voters are opposed to the military operation in Iran."

But according to a joesbbs.com voting topic, 100% of voters support it. Don't google it, because the left doesn't want you to know about joesbbs.com.

Back before AOL, there was an intelligence test that you needed to get on line.

You needed to know how to connect up a modem, get a terminal program and connect to another computer using those things.

Or you had to be such a nice person, you could get a smart person to show all this to you.

I will argue that joesbbs.com is not a representative slice of the voting public (note: not the AMERICAN public) because it requires a level of intelligence (or nice-ness) to get on the BBS that most Leftoids don't have.


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But according to a joesbbs.com voting topic, 100% of voters support i Don't google it, because the left doesn't want you to know about joesbbs.com.

Back before AOL, there was an intelligence test that you needed to get
on line.

Do you mean like the old "New User Infoform?"

"What does ICE, ACID, and CIA stand for?"

I will argue that joesbbs.com is not a representative slice of the voting public (note: not the AMERICAN public) because it requires a level of intelligence (or nice-ness) to get on the BBS that most Leftoids don't have.

Right. They just need someone with an authoritative voice to tell them "what the polls say" and then next thing you know they're all injecting weird stuff into their veins.

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On 10 Mar 2026, Aaron Thomas said the following...

But according to a joesbbs.com voting topic, 100% of voters support it. Don't google it, because the left doesn't want you to know about joesbbs.com.

HAHAHA... I think some one read this because I had a new caller today!!!

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But according to a joesbbs.com voting topic, 100% of voters support i Don't google it, because the left doesn't want you to know about joesbbs.com.

HAHAHA... I think some one read this because I had a new caller today!!!

Cool! But they didn't vote on my topic yet ;)

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

Back before AOL, there was an intelligence test that you needed to get
on line.

Do you mean like the old "New User Infoform?"
"What does ICE, ACID, and CIA stand for?"

Not quite. :)

You either had to be technically savvy enough - so you were at least contributing to the discussions.
Or you were nice enough to have someone techically savvy enough - so you probably weren't a jerk.
.. to get on line.

It was a nice filter. Then AOL came along and made it easy for stupid and/or jerks to get on line.


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On 11 Mar 2026, Aaron Thomas said the following...

Cool! But they didn't vote on my topic yet ;)

Everyone logon to JoesBBS.com and vote on @Aaron's topic. No ID needed so Liberals are welcome.

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You either had to be technically savvy enough - so you were at least contributing to the discussions.
Or you were nice enough to have someone techically savvy enough - so you probably weren't a jerk.
.. to get on line.

I don't remember that. Did they have message forums or something?

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

You either had to be technically savvy enough - so you were at least contributing to the discussions.
Or you were nice enough to have someone techically savvy enough - so you probably weren't a jerk.
.. to get on line.

I don't remember that. Did they have message forums or something?

So back in the day, pre-AOL, if you wanted to get on line, you either had to be technically knowledgeable or nice to someone who was. There was no help to get on line.

Early Internet was even worse. I remember working to get KA9Q running on my MS-DOS machine.

Then along comes AOL, who does it all for you. Now, armed with a GUI (i.e. point-and-drool interface), from your AOL account, you could bother thousands of people who were, pre-AOL, insulated from the "me to!" people.


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So back in the day, pre-AOL, if you wanted to get on line, you either
had to be technically knowledgeable or nice to someone who was. There
was no help to get on line.

In the early 90s I had a friend who knew how to use the Internet via telnet, and he showed me how to connect and I figured out how to download some files, but it was difficult. I barely knew how to use linux back then and I think that's what it was; you'd connect via telnet and then do all your stuff in a remote linux terminal. It's wasn't fun nor colorful like the BBSs.

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

In the early 90s I had a friend who knew how to use the Internet via telnet, and he showed me how to connect and I figured out how to
download some files, but it was difficult. I barely knew how to use
linux back then and I think that's what it was; you'd connect via
telnet and then do all your stuff in a remote linux terminal. It's
wasn't fun nor colorful like the BBSs.

Ya, BBSs did make things easier. But they also helped to reign in the jerks. If someone was a big enough jerk, he'd get banned from all the BBSs in the area and... problem solved.


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