CB 2013

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In 1983 a pronounced uptick in online chat-room growth began to draw a large number of our local CB contingent off the air and into cyberspace.

Folks must be pretty progressive in Ohio. The CB crowd in Florida certainly did not have computers and use BBS in the 1980s. Matter of fact, CB was pretty well done by the 80s except for bucketmouths and bullies. Overall, the prime of CB was in the mid to late 70s, and most sensible people had either drifted away or gotten their Tech licenses and shifted to repeater culture.

What killed CB was its own popularity, and a contingent of bad actors and behaviors that all too soon became the norm.

There are times that I miss the social scene that accompanied CB in the 70s...