Subj : who do you miss most from bbsing
To   : MRO
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Nov 11 2025 13:27:38

  Re: who do you miss most from bbsing
  By: MRO to All on Tue Nov 11 2025 03:58 am

 MR> Who do you miss most from bbsing?
 MR> people that you knew and maybe were friends with who decided to hang it
 MR> up.

With BBSing back in the 90s, I miss that pretty much all BBSes had a community of local users. Also, the BBSing community in general, including the developers making all the software (BBS software, doors, & tools) and sysops running the BBSes.  I always thought it was really cool that you could run a little online service such as BBS from your home, and that it was fairly easy to get them connected together for message networks such as FidoNet.  I've heard some stories that in some countries that like to censor things (like China), FidoNet has even helped doctors in those countries communicate outside the country & get information they needed, because FidoNet was under the radar and not monitored by their government.

Nightfox

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