Re: The Case for Online BBS's

["John Van Winkle" <appleiieman@charter.net>]

BBS's to me, are like a drive movie theater, rare these days but served a
useful purpose and still work today.  I would like to do one if I had the
time, have the space on the hard drive.  I think it's great you guys have
set these up so not only can we retro compute, but retro bbs as well, which
was a part of computing.  Thanks for the fun and keep up the good work!


"Smohn Jith" <khorster@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:eyYEd.28$qL4.18@fe09.lga...
> BBS's serve purposes.  NNTP newsgroups are great, fantastic.  You can
> interact with a ton of people and find answers to any of your questions,
and
> then that's also the downside.  You interact with a ton of people.  A BBS
> can bring the interaction to a smaller, more intimate level.
>
> If there's no reason for a BBS, then there's no reason for a web page.
It's
> there to disseminate information.  It was the webserver of 20 years ago.
A
> place you would go to find out information, talk to other people, play
> games, transfer files, etc.  There is something sacred about logging in
> through a terminal, just as there's something sacred about the command
line
> interface instead of a GUI.  I love the old BBS games, and I know I have
10
> minutes to log in someplace once day and interact, instead of having to
try
> to play an online RISK game with my friends and get them all together at
> once, even in different time zones, etc.....
>
>