Subj : Re: The Documentary...
To   : Digital Man
From : Time Warrior
Date : Fri Aug 05 2005 07:01 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Digital Man
  Re: Re: The Documentary...
  By: Digital Man to textfiles on Fri Aug 05 2005 12:40 am

 > Don't forget the compliments as well!

Yes, we can't forget those! :-)

 > Thank you! I hadn't told you directly yet, but the documentary turned out ve
 > professional and I (and surprisingly, my family) found it very entertaining
 > and educational!

I've always concidered myself very knowledgable about the scene in general, 
however The BBS Documentary was so enlighteneing I felt like a clueless idiot 
after watching it. As they say, they more you know, theres alot more you 
don't know.

 > I don't think that distinction was made clear, at least to me. I mean, you
 > interviewed Vincent Cerf and other luminaries that had nothing to do with di
 > up BBSes, but certainly could be argued to be instrumental to the BBSes of
 > today. And of course, the majority of *my* contributions to the
 > history/evolution of BBSes have been in the Internet era.

I felt the same way, however, I wasn't dissapointed. I was happy that he even 
mentioned any still exist at all! :-)

 > Of course RIP (and to a limited degree other BBS graphics technologies) were
 > pervasive on dial-up BBSes in the 90s, but it got no coverage. I thought the
 > attempts at a graphics "standard" on dial-up BBSes was an important point in
 > the evolution of BBSes and perhaps a forshadowing of the Web to come.

Give yourself alot more credit, because I think Synchronet will set the 
standard for that "forshadowing of the Web to come". I think Synchronet is 
our last best hope for pulling (at least some of) the World Wide Web out of 
the scam, spam, spyware and virii cesspool everyone knows it to be.

Synchronet is a practical miracle in its own right. However, it has been and 
will continue to be inspiration for many other related third party efforts.

I also think telnet as it stands won't last too incredibly much longer. 
However, I think it will evolve into something better. Pictures of things 
like Flash Based Full Screen Editors with SVGA Graphics that have both point 
and click buttons *AND* accept the ussual /q /s /a commands we know and 
love. Telnet-Style Message scans through Flash Interfaces making web posting 
as quick and painless as telnet scans currently are, catoring to command line 
and point and click people alike.

Web based doorgames that also flow just as seamlessly.

The future has yet to be written and the historical coders have their coffee 
beside them! So, the future will definately prove to be interesting, me 
thinks.

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