Subj : Re: Rise and fall of BBSe
To   : Mweeby
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 12:13 pm

  Re: Re: Rise and fall of BBSe
  By: Mweeby to Ralph Smole on Wed Sep 28 2005 07:09 am

 > > Yep. It's an addiction in the true sense of the word. Best thing..it's
 > > basically harmless. Especially with the advent of telnettable boards! No
 > more
 > > long distance charges!!
 > > >            Yes, Guns DO kill people!
 > the thing I notice that is absent from the current crop of users is that
 > there don't seem to be that many teenage kids in it, at least at the
 > moment.
 > I suppose bbses with web interfaces would attract more people in that age
 > group.
 > I recall how they all wanted to be sysops too.  Well that's ok I wanted to
 > be a sysop just so I could look at it from the business end, but I had
 > been a user for a couple of years prior to that.
 > 

You're right..  I was one of those kids who was active in BBSes from 7th 
grade through college, and I ran several over the years with other friends 
my age.  Back then I had a group of folks from both my school and 
surrounding schools who all helped one another out, plus we had our 'adult 
contacts' who hooked us up with hardware and software.  

Now it does seem to be more old school sysops and BBS users doing BBSes.  Is 
anyone on here new to BBSes totally?  I could totally see BBSes becoming a 
sub culture of the Internet since it's non-mainstream.  By non-mainstream 
I'm talking about you can search Google and pick-up the files or messages on 
BBSes unless they've been ported to to the web or newsgroups somehow.  

I'm surprised more 'leet' groups aren't flocking to this type of media...  I 
mean no way for the FCC, RIAA, etc to track downloads from BBSes.  I'm not a 
software or music pirate by any means, but I do plan on adding much of my 
personal fave music and software to my BBS for me to pull off whenever 
needed and to share with others.  

Sam

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