Well, I guess BBSs have adapted a little bit to the internet. Using certain programs like netmodem you can run BBSs over telnet connections, as long as you have and ANSI compatable telnet client. I have a bbs running myself, that I started up recently:
Solace BBS - telnet://solace.digitaldriveway.com
Give it a try.
Later, the hanged man http://thehangedman.digitaldriveway.com Sysop, Solace BBS - telnet://solace.digitaldriveway.com
This is exactly the problem. Its like the difference (for me, anyhow) between college and high school. I went to a high school that wasn't particularly small (2000-2500 students), but there was a fairly good sense of community within the little microcosm there. Now I go to Georgia Tech, with 10s of thousands of students, and there really is no sense of community at all. I have a few pals from high school and some I know from various other things, but other than that, I haven't met but a couple of people. Its big and unfriendly and businesslike. And that is the problem with the Internet... no feeling of community, everything is super-huge. I don't know anyone on slashdot or any newsgroups I read. I'll never have that feeling... but on BBSs, I felt like I knew some of those people.
An interesting question: what is to be done about this? I mean, we can all complain. Some (like myself) can start up little telnet BBSs in an attempt to return to the 'glory days' or whatever (I'm really not old enough to talk like this), but really, none of that is a step foward. How can we regain the sense of community that we had in the BBS days?
the hanged man http://thehangedman.digitaldriveway.com Sysop, Solace BBS - telnet://solace.digitaldriveway.com
Slashdot Mirror
I've put up a mirror at http://thehangedman.digitaldriveway.c om/DeCSS
Also you can try to download them from my BBS (The file section is buggy).
Well, I guess BBSs have adapted a little bit to the internet. Using certain programs like netmodem you can run BBSs over telnet connections, as long as you have and ANSI compatable telnet client. I have a bbs running myself, that I started up recently:
Solace BBS - telnet://solace.digitaldriveway.com
Give it a try.
Later,
the hanged man
http://thehangedman.digitaldriveway.com
Sysop, Solace BBS - telnet://solace.digitaldriveway.com
This is exactly the problem. Its like the difference (for me, anyhow) between college and high school. I went to a high school that wasn't particularly small (2000-2500 students), but there was a fairly good sense of community within the little microcosm there. Now I go to Georgia Tech, with 10s of thousands of students, and there really is no sense of community at all. I have a few pals from high school and some I know from various other things, but other than that, I haven't met but a couple of people. Its big and unfriendly and businesslike. And that is the problem with the Internet... no feeling of community, everything is super-huge. I don't know anyone on slashdot or any newsgroups I read. I'll never have that feeling... but on BBSs, I felt like I knew some of those people.
An interesting question: what is to be done about this? I mean, we can all complain. Some (like myself) can start up little telnet BBSs in an attempt to return to the 'glory days' or whatever (I'm really not old enough to talk like this), but really, none of that is a step foward. How can we regain the sense of community that we had in the BBS days?
the hanged man
http://thehangedman.digitaldriveway.com
Sysop, Solace BBS - telnet://solace.digitaldriveway.com