Can it do WWIV with doors?
ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System
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Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure. I do remember a friend with a Tandy 1000 and CompuServe having email back then. I don't recall BBS systems requiring email for registration. Most of the ones I went to a few years later (early 90s) didn't require registration at all.
CompuServe was not a BBS in the typical use of the term. And anyway CompuServe did not have an SMTP gateway until a bit later, 1989. They had their own closed system with their infamous octal User IDs eg: 74661,130. BBSes with direct internet email relays were always a rarity until the 90s, when BBSes were rapidly on the decline. And much more prevalent were relay systems such as FidoNet, RelayNet and StormNet. The e…
> their infamous octal User IDs eg: 74661,130
That was a relic of the DEC PDP-10 / TOPS-10 architecture that Compuserve was built upon.
Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure. I do remember a friend with a Tandy 1000 and CompuServe having email back then. I don't recall BBS systems requiring email for registration. Most of the ones I went to a few years later (early 90s) didn't require registration at all.
CompuServe was not a BBS in the typical use of the term. And anyway CompuServe did not have an SMTP gateway until a bit later, 1989. They had their own closed system with their infamous octal User IDs eg: 74661,130. BBSes with direct internet email relays were always a rarity until the 90s, when BBSes were rapidly on the decline. And much more prevalent were relay systems such as FidoNet, RelayNet and StormNet. The e…
Uh, you could email many more people on compuserve and Fidonet then than were on the Internet at all.
BBSes had that kind of email long before there was any move towards the Internet.
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#14Can't wait for DOOMGPT
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#15Sidenote, thanks for showing me sharegpt... Often you want to show something and screenshots are such a terrible way to go. I don't understand why OpenAI doesn't have a share icon with a pretty print html link. Hey OpenAI, that'd be a good idea?
Definitely agree. Honestly though, I think it's because their servers are literally melting right now. Once they have that under control, they will add viral features.
Openai doesn’t want share features it would make it to easy to scrape a dataset of gpt4 answers
Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure. I do remember a friend with a Tandy 1000 and CompuServe having email back then. I don't recall BBS systems requiring email for registration. Most of the ones I went to a few years later (early 90s) didn't require registration at all.
CompuServe was not a BBS in the typical use of the term. And anyway CompuServe did not have an SMTP gateway until a bit later, 1989. They had their own closed system with their infamous octal User IDs eg: 74661,130. BBSes with direct internet email relays were always a rarity until the 90s, when BBSes were rapidly on the decline. And much more prevalent were relay systems such as FidoNet, RelayNet and StormNet. The e…
BBSs were at their peak user numbers in the early-to-mid 1990s.
It was only after 1995 or so with the web starting to develop and, subsequently, dial-up ISPs exploding that BBSs went in to that rapid decline.
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#17It’s fun, but it’s not really at all what a BBS was like.
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#18Where's the ANSI art?
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#19A 1987 BBS would not ask for an email address, would it?
It also wouldn't talk about quantum computing, VR, and AR.
Re: ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
CompuServe was not a BBS in the typical use of the term. And anyway CompuServe did not have an SMTP gateway until a bit later, 1989. They had their own closed system with their infamous octal User IDs eg: 74661,130. BBSes with direct internet email relays were always a rarity until the 90s, when BBSes were rapidly on the decline. And much more prevalent were relay systems such as FidoNet, RelayNet and StormNet. The e…
Uh, you could email many more people on compuserve and Fidonet then than were on the Internet at all. BBSes had that kind of email long before there was any move towards the Internet.
What's uh? Compuserve had email, but it was not Internet connected nor SMTP, where did I say or imply otherwise. And a BBS in the 1980s wouldn't ask you for your "email" address.