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BBS Links Database Back Online

Posted by Hemos on from the blast-from-the-past dept.

leviathan writes "After being down for almost a year, the original BBS Links Database is back in action. Started back in 1999, almost a third of the original entries have been pruned out, and others are in dire need of updating. If you run a BBS related web site, please help us out by adding it to the database, or updating your existing entries."

3 of 100 comments (clear)

  1. Clarification? by Flashbuster+2000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Could someone please explain what BBSes are used for now, in 2002? The Internet does a great job for warez and pr0ns of all sorts.

    Note to moderators: I'm not trolling, or being offtopic, or being flamebait. This can be a legit discussion.

  2. Let me count the ways by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. Nostalgia
    You ever want to play old door games, and hang out in an even tinier, community, just for old time sake? Send emails in a closed system, make postings that only make sense to members? Then a telnet BBS is the place for you to hang out.

    2. Cool factor
    Cause it sounds so much more attractive (IMHO) than blog.

    3. Privacy
    The chances of an honest to goodness dial up BBS adds a bit of privacy to every posting and conversation.

    4. Community
    This is sort of the same, or at least touched on in the first post. We have it here, but not quite so cohesive. BBS's (and now a days blogs) offer like minded people a place to go to share, socialize, and feel welcome.

    I have several friends, that even in the day of Everquest and UO continually play MUDs for many of the reasons I have outlined.

  3. Re:FINALLY by IGnatius+T+Foobar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Arrgh. I am sick and tired of the Slashbot groupthink idea that the BBS is a thing of the past. The BBS community is alive and well on the Internet. It's single-line dialup systems that are dead.

    BBS's still provide the greatest sense of a cohesive online community out there. Better than "blog" type nonsense, and certainly better than what the likes of MSN and AOL have to offer.

    I've run UNCENSORED! BBS for 14 years and I'm not about to stop now. And the 200+ users aren't going to stop logging in, either. Modern BBS's offer access via telnet/ssh or web, your choice. And the Internet-connectedness of it all has made it possible for BBS communities to attain geographic diversity, something which was not possible when you had to deal with long distance modem calls.

    Please, people, let's get the perspective straight. The BBS is alive and well, so stop pushing this "bygone era" myth.

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