Subj : Re: ANSI art
To   : fusion
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Oct 30 2025 16:42:02

  Re: Re: ANSI art
  By: fusion to Ogg on Thu Oct 30 2025 03:26 pm

 fu> ever found someone in real life that used to call bbses when they were in
 fu> their prime? i'd bet a lot of them wouldn't be interested in connecting to
 fu> them again. because it was a means to an end. like having a car phone
 fu> before there were cellulars that fit in your pocket. they just don't care
 fu> about the bbs aspect of it at all, because something better replaced it.
 fu> and that's specifically considering that they would have experienced
 fu> bbsing "at it's best" with countless users..

I can understand that, and I was sort of like that myself when the internet started to become popular, and then when I saw that my BBS was barely getting any users anymore in 2000. I figured people generally stopped using BBSes because most people now had access to the internet, with so much more things easily available. In 2007, I found that BBSes were still around (and on the internet); I was surprised, but I also thought it was pretty cool that BBSes were still around. Even though the internet basically provides everything BBSes did and more, I think BBSes get a lot less of the ads & spam that we see elsewhere on the internet.  BBSes also provide a simpler user interface, which can potentially translate into a simpler overall experience.

Also, BBSes tended to have a local user community due to avoiding long-distance phone charges, though that doesn't really happen much anymore with BBSes being on the internet.

Nightfox

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