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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Tue Oct 22, 2002 @ 2:55am |
 Coolness: 2604120 | BBSes, or Bulletin Board Systems, were kings in their day. Users would dial up to them directly, using a modem. No internet and no ISP were involved, and the user took up the whole phone line. Other users would get a BUSY signal until the online user logged off and hung up. Single user was the norm until years later when multi-node BBSes started showing up -- the SysOp would have several machines networked, and each would have a modem. Expensive, but worthwhile. And all at 1200 or 2400 baud (120-240 characters per second.. as low as 30 chars per second to as high as 20k/second in the later days..)
What did you do a BBS once you got there? What value was in it? Local interaction from the world -- Email, IRC, ICQ are all direct forms of communications, world scale. Usenet and web forums are not direct, and world-audience again. How do you get local interaction, world audience, in a friendly but passive way? A BBS - a group of users hannging out inthe same place, interacting personally on a small scale, but via localized email and message bases and games. With fidonet and gateways you are interacting with the world, but all through a personalized "portal". Its just a friendly medium that is all but vanished today... Interact with the community -- the BBS was not a disjoint set of users like on the web. It was a group of people all dialing up and sharing a limited resource. Being a limited resource meant BBSes tended towards themes and topics of interest to the users. This meant it was more of a group or hang-out than a website will ever be. Many had face to face get-togethers as well. Play games -- BBS games were fantastic. Usually head to head and team based. Play a turn each day in a space empire and combat the other users or teams. Build giant medievil empires, or send starships into the unknown for great trading missions.. these are a form of gaming descended from roleplaying and tabletop gaming and nearly gone from the earth. Play-by-email is similar but slower and less personal. Read and Post in the Message Bases -- the heart of the BBS were its message bases. Much like usenet, but simpler and localized due to the dialup nature of the BBS, they tended to be personal and interesting and friendly. And full of the greatest flamewars ever to be seen. I believe they still fit into a niche today -- usenet is wide scale. IRC is immediate. Email is private. BBS Message Bases are public, yet personal and local, and more interactive then a website. Play games -- did I say thhe games were great yet? Network -- using FidoNet or Citanet or other proprietary inter-BBS means. Fidonet was by far the champion, and still exists in some form or another today |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Tue Oct 22, 2002 @ 3:01am |
 Coolness: 685725 | BBSes were the best. Up untill about 2 months ago, one BBS was still up and running in montreal and I was a loyal caller still. BBSes were also where I met v0idnull and ph0enix (And Lullysing if he ever shows up on here again :D) and those were some of the best days of my life. Especially the HPVAC BBSes. I wonder if Juxtaposition is still up... :) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ApR1zM replied on Tue Oct 22, 2002 @ 4:32am |
 Coolness: 164935 | hehe i dunno but im pretty sure all this infos is only valuable to geeks like us ... nobody cares :((( i probably lost a lotta girls thinking and talking about that stuff...
oh well :) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mindset replied on Wed Oct 30, 2002 @ 6:03am |
 Coolness: 52680 | i ran a bbs called The Wall for about 4 years.
started on a 2400, went up to 14400, and then i got a life. was part of X-Link, a seven bbs network connected through Front Door (remember having to press escape twice to enter a bbs?). |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Wed Oct 30, 2002 @ 11:45am |
| Coolness: 2604120 | I ran The Digital Cafe, and Maximum Entropy... 4 lines in total durring it's prime (both boards together)...
Over 20 networks, I ran my own message networks MusicNet and AnimeNet which didn't go far past montreal but was on over 15 different boards. Over 25,000 mod files online and another 15,000 anime images (at it's end) for The Digital Cafe, and Maximum Entropy was a distro for PWA, 7gigs, my official courrier was "Rat" who worked at Bombardier and pained planes for a living. Yah for Bbs's.... Renegade Legion was a bbs also... That's where I got the name from. If you look around the net you will find some ANSIS' for that Bbs... [ magneticm.ice.org ] |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Zz.ee.vV replied on Wed Oct 30, 2002 @ 2:48pm |
 Coolness: 194160 | i used to be in ACiD israeli division back in the oldskool days..
lotsa freestyle and ansis... man good times good times. |
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