okay.. why in the world does everyone disrespect bbs's so much these days? bbs's should be even more active and fun than they were in the past, since we can all get to them through telnet for FREE! but, there are many misconceptions that are hurting bbs's.. i'm going to dispell them here:
These discussions don't have to be about art or the scene -- that's why there is a 'non-scene related' section -- talk about whatever you guys want: sex, girls, boys, dogs, cats, weird sexual practices, etc..
> #1 telnet bbs's are too slow:
dangermouse - heh, a friend of mine just last night put up a telnet bbs (actually, it's my bbs -- i let him use my setup) on his cable connection just so we could have a LORD tournament =)
>>These discussions don't have to be about art or the scene -- that's why there is a 'non-scene related' section -- talk about whatever you guys want: sex, girls, boys, dogs, cats, weird sexual practices, etc.. <<
danger : bbs's are/was the core of the scene man..
Seph, I don;t recall saying that they ever weren't the core of the scene..
#1 telnet bbs's are too slow:
Hello! you all used to spend like $100 a month calling l/d boards on a 9600 or 14.4 which really isn't that much faster than telnet bbs's.. and they're FREE!
#2 there's nothing to do:
Well, that's dumb.. you always had tons of stuff to do before... discussion.. bbs's are the perfect places for discussions like this, plus you don't even have to be so related to the scene like this is, and it's even easier to use in my opinion... plus you still have doors and files!
#3 there are no good boards:
there have been plenty of well SETUP boards (afterlife, infect's, idle dreams, etc) but it's up to YOU to make it a GOOD board.. you need to go on, post (not just look around and leavE).. etc, you all are responsible for making it what it was before...
come on people! keep bbs's going!
ralgoth
+o idle dreams - telnet://idledreams.nws.net
By Dangermouse on Thursday, January 21, 1999 - 08:23 pm:
But yes, I do miss the days of the BBS, and especially playing the old door games like Lord. Maybe acheron should have a telnet BBS list? Actually, doesn't Woezine have one of them?
By Darkmage on Thursday, January 21, 1999 - 09:11 pm:
> Hello! you all used to spend like $100 a month calling l/d boards on a 9600 or 14.4
This is precisely the reason why we will not accept slow speed. Data communications move a bit faster these days, I hear. Not to mention that the equivalent of a busy signal from a telnet board is pretty irritating. Up the max connections to something higher than 1, eh?
> #2 there's nothing to do:
It's not that there is nothing to do, we are just doing it elsewhere. Discussion boards here on the web, realtime conversation on IRC, files from ftp.
> #3 there are no good boards
The reason BBSs were great was that they had things to offer that couldn't be found elsewhere. If you want BBSs to be that popular again, they need something to offer other than nostalgia.
-darkmage[iCE]
By Haquisaq on Friday, January 22, 1999 - 01:40 am:
By God among Lice on Friday, January 22, 1999 - 06:19 pm:
hehe. aren't the first 5 in that list just subsets of the last one? ;)
In theory, I think the great thing about bbs's is that you're going to a place that has it's own stuff. Maybe you could find it somewhere else, but you're still going to this one specific place to get it, along with all sorts of other things, discussions, files, games, whatever. I don't like the way the internet is separated into ftp, usenet, email, irc, www, and most of the time using different apps for every one of those. There's less of a sense of unique place, and it's more like you're just using these tools to get stuff sent to you.
By Sephiroth on Tuesday, January 26, 1999 - 11:36 am:
ralgoth : the regular phoneline bbs's where much faster....
By Dangermouse on Tuesday, January 26, 1999 - 07:44 pm: