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BBS Links Database Back Online
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."
vs the september that never ended, when AOL first gave internet access.
even in a large forum, most of the key players only number in the large handfuls.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
There are actually quite a few VERY active BBS's around the net that have more than enough activity to keep you busy into the wee hours! Fidonet is still alive as it seems. The problem is there is alot of telnet based boards that have ZER0 activity. A cool homegrown BBS to check out is at telnet://toga.cx if you want an example of current BBS development in progress!
You know, with Der Department auf Homeland Sekurity and the Pentagon sniffing around the Net, maybe it's time to revive the dialup BBS. Not that dialups are inherently more secure, but they're not so much on the radar.
I remember reading an article some years ago--maybe it was in the book MEGATRENDS--speculating that the time would come when the Internet would be too crowded or too dangerous in the future. I sorta brushed-off the idea. The author went on to say he thought like-minded folks would form stand-alone network "guilds" to afford a more secure computing environment.
Maybe privacy will push some of us in that direction. It would be funny to see a new generation of BBS operators springing up here and there.
I wonder what new hardware and programs might come of it?
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BBSing is alive and well for door games.
I make a Tradewars2002 helper for java.
Its even open source!
Go to www.j-twat.com to check it out, or to the sourceforge page here
I used to run a small BBS in Kansas City and remember the time the nodelist got so large it broke the automated nodediff tosser virtually everyone used.
/. 2 years ago about the maintainer of that list stopping ?)
.. but still kept on working... (The sysop had not logged into the system in 1 1/2 years)
.. the whole store and forward this is great, except when your mail has to go out 4 or 5 mail batch points to get where it is going)
More to the point, if you look at the zone file you'll notice that a majority of the activity is outside the old major activity zones (1-6)
Turns out that places like various countries in Africa and Russia are thriving using the old fido mailer programs.
Who'd have guessed that there would still be a market and place for a store and forward mailing and discussion list for nodes that only connect to the network once a day or less.
Sounds an awful lot like usenet back in the day when UUCP transmisions between sites was a common way to transfer stuff and there was actually a maintained uunet list. (wasn't there something on
Last year when I logged onto a fido BBS, most of his mail read year 1901
Oh for the days when in an echomail group when you can see the second generation of replies to a message before actually seeing the original message. (If the originator had less than steller connections
If you'd believe it, this bbs is acting as a fully functional hub for Fight-o-net, RIME, Family and even Animenet, as inactive as the latter regretfully is.
This sig no verb.
Anyone know any good MUD games like MajorMud that would run on *nix? Free would be nice ;) I miss Majormud...sigh....
TheMage from the old metrobbs.