BBSes (Was Re: 8-bit War (Was Processor balance))

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Thu Nov 16 11:44:31 2000

At 10:52 AM 11/16/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>I miss the really insane BBS battling that went on back then. I'm hoping
>that _real_ bulletin board systems will start a slow comeback, but I'm
>probably just wishing in the wind. :)


www.slashdot.org

What you perhaps fail to realize is the a "BBS" is an expression of an
extremely ancient human trait (sit around and flame each other :-) The dial
in kind of the 70's gave way to vastness of Usenet and are now being
replaced by web sites that behave in much the same way. All we've done is
removed the modem and xmodem and replaced them with web browsers and ftp. A
telnet version of a BBS would be even easier. I think this is sort of
exemplified in what Slashdot does.

--Chuck
Received on Thu Nov 16 2000 - 11:44:31 GMT