Subj : Re: ANSI art
To   : MRO
From : Denn
Date : Sun Oct 26 2025 07:46:36

  Re: Re: ANSI art
  By: MRO to multiplemiggs on Sun Oct 26 2025 01:28 am

 > DW>> What I think really killed the "golden era" of BBSing was the
 > DW>> growing availability of the Internet, regardless of whether the

 By 1997 my BBS callers droped to the point that I pulled the plug on the Original Outwest BBS.

 MR> The internet was enticing, but also what was bad for bbses 
 MR> is how sysops operated. many sysops were close minded and not eager to
 MR> adopt new things. I think the best thing to do if it was affordable was to
 MR> bridge bbsing into the internet and web.

 I had shut my BBS down but kept the 2nd line so I could dial into the internet.

 MR> The important thing to remember is that a bbs is a system for users to
 MR> interact with. It's for socalizing, maybe gaming and maybe files.

The internet had all that and more.
 From 1997 to 2015 I had all but forgot about BBSes, then I googled BBS and found they still existed, Thats when I started the 2nd Outwest BBS on Synchronet, and a BBS (Razzpie BBS) that I started on a Raspberry PI and Mystic, running on a Raspberry PI 3.
 
 

.... MODEM: Monumentally Obsolete Data Eating Machine.

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