also worth checking out: https://old.reddit.com/r/bbs/
Telnet BBS Guide
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Re: Telnet BBS Guide
#52"BBS: The Documentary" is worth a watch. http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
It is, but I found it still missed out on large parts of what BBSing was like in the 80's and early 90's.
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#53It's a bit sad that many OSes are dropping telnet. For some stuff it's still fine. No need to remove a 2 kilobyte tool that people still use :) Same with FTP.
Re: Telnet BBS Guide
#54It's a bit sad that many OSes are dropping telnet. For some stuff it's still fine. No need to remove a 2 kilobyte tool that people still use :) Same with FTP.
Windows still has both, just need to activate them.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Diamond Mine Online BBS (bbs.dmine.net) is a great place to start. :)
I don't see y'all on the Telnet BBS list! Also, does Synchronet syndicate NNTP?
The Diamond Mine also has some NNTP from what I've seen. Doubt they have all the newsgroups though.
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#56If you're looking for a simple web-based one, have a look at https://midnight.pub . :)
Is this content computer-generated? 'When we went for a new wife acquaintance, on the way I asked "What is she doing?" .. He replied, slightly embarrassed, "Yes, nothing at all."'
Nah, just a guy joking to show he’s drunk lol
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I really think the future is private enclaves, closed forums, etc. with strict rules to try to keep out not just trolls and idiots but more importantly bots. We are living in the twilight of the open Internet, at least as a medium of any kind of meaningful communication. All that will be left on the “clearnet” is a social media influencer hustle culture driven hellscape where half the participants are bots anyway.…
There were heaps of private BBSes in the 80s and 90, many of those were pirate sites but some were run by art groups for their members, churches and so on. So private digital spaces are not new by any means
Sure I'm not saying they're _new_. I was too young for the BBS era, but I visited plenty of private or semi-private forums in the 90s. I just mean that, in hindsight, I think most of us will view the Facebook-style concept of the "global village" as an unstable aberration of the 2000s rather than the primary way to socialize as many tech folks optimistically believed back then.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I spent a lot of time on BBSs back in the day. There were some moderated tech support communities that were extremely tame, but most of it was like 4chan if 4chan was restricted to just your local calling area. In person BBS Parties and later IRC Channel Parties were full of the greatest and most bizarre mix of people I have ever come across with a common interest. That's probably because with just the screen name an…
Quite different from the BBS Circles I was part of. They required you to use your real name on the forums ("conferences"). If a BBS was discovered not to enforce that rule, they would be kicked out of the network. It was very civil.
Sure, there were those boards, but they were mainly for tech support or associated with a school or something like that. The boards I hung out on had far more relaxed rules.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quite different from the BBS Circles I was part of. They required you to use your real name on the forums ("conferences"). If a BBS was discovered not to enforce that rule, they would be kicked out of the network. It was very civil.
Sure, there were those boards, but they were mainly for tech support or associated with a school or something like that. The boards I hung out on had far more relaxed rules.
No - they were just general purpose boards. They just had strict rules on behavior (well behaved flame wars, etc). I was on them before I was on USENET, and in comparison, USENET really sucked with its relative lawlessness.
The "enforce the rules or your whole BBS will be sanctioned" was extremely effective in producing a civil (but not boring) environment.
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#60Looks like it was temporarily slowed to a crawl by HNers. Will try again later.
LOL! It's back up now.