So, we had a pretty good connection to the BBS systems, the bulletin board systems, back then.

所以我们有一个很好的BBC网络系统，就是电子布告栏系统。

To go online you had to connect your computer to a phone line and dial something called a BBS.

要上网，您必须将计算机连接到电话线并拨打称为 BBS 的电话。

So you tended to stick to the BBSs in your area code.

所以你倾向于坚持使用区号中的 BBS。

But then the internet arrived and brought the BBS era to an end.

但后来互联网的到来， 结束了 BBS 时代。

The genuine sense of community that came with the BBS era.

BBS 时代带来的真正的社区意识。

At their peak, in the early '90s, there were thousands of BBSs all over the United States.

在 90 年代初的鼎盛时期， 全美各地有数千个 BBS。

Edwards says the BBSs often built up a group of regular callers and they had a local feel to them.

爱德华兹说， BBS 经常建立起一群常来电者， 而且他们给人一种当地人的感觉。

Now they're siloed off on these Discord servers, which are kind of like their own BBSs in a way.

现在他们被孤立在这些 Discord 服务器上， 这些服务器在某种程度上有点像他们自己的 BBS。

So it feels like we already are returning to BBSs, you know?

所以感觉我们已经回到了BBS， 你知道吗？

That's a lot of years and a lot of bbs. Once they're born, they immediately leave their  family for a life of solitude.

那是很多年和很多BBS。一旦他们出生，他们立即离开家人过着孤独的生活。