it isn't that the internet is dead, it is that there are a lot of brain dead people on the internet
BBS is how i was introduced to the concept of the internet around.. oh. 1994 or so - both through delphi internet(which is actually still online?! - and oh my god i still remember my password) and local ones to michigan. Man, memory lane.
my first username was actually because i didn't understand an Ad i saw for the X-Files usenet group on delphi - it said to enter WRJ95 as the password, but, i messed up and entered it as the username, and then ended up creating a new account and well, i haven't really logged off since