Subj : Re: The Documentary...
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : Frank Vest
Date : Sun Aug 07 2005 01:32 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

sinister x wrote:
>   To: Time Warrior
>     
>  > 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 lin 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. --
> 
> I've had thoughts on something like this for a long time (I posted about it 
> when I started work on Psylent). What this is going to have to entail though 
> is the writing of clients to support networks that would utilize some new 
> protocol, flash doesn't give you a whole lot of power to do everything you 
> need with a board. I think something like the SVG format is a good place to 
> start in making a scripting language and protocol that allows sysops to make 
> animations for their system menus and such.

To be honest, and in my own humble opinion: What "we", the BBS Sysops, 
programers and other developers, need to be careful about is to not lose 
the things that made "us" (see definition of "we") what we are. One 
critical thing, IMHO, is the security that BBSs have. It's more likely 
that you will die in a wreck than to get a virus from a BBS. Other 
security risks seem to be less as well. It's estimated that an 
unprotected computer on the inter net will last a few seconds before 
being hit. I can sit on my BBS via dial-up for all day and not worry. 
<wink> Even via telnet, being attacked just don't happen. I laugh when 
those "security check" site (DSL Reports and such" flash that warning 
that I have a telnet port open and could be hacked. :)

At any rate, I hope the developers of the future keep that level of 
security in mind. To me, this is one of the major problems with Internet 
and a major downfall.  Not to mention, of course, spam and such.

Ok. That's my $.02. Keep the change. :)

Frank
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