Subj : Re: xbin
To   : echicken
From : Ragnarok
Date : Thu Mar 10 2022 10:53:11

El 9/3/22 a las 20:50, echicken escribió:
>    Re: xbin
>    By: MRO to DesotoFireflite on Wed Mar 09 2022 09:56:09
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>   MR> anyways, maybe what would help us out in the current age is to go in the
>   MR> direction that excaliber bbs was going. there it had graphics and sound.
> 
> At a certain point you're just reinventing the web browser. There was a time when these would've been awesome features for a BBS to have, but timing just didn't work out. Everyone bailed for the web because it was prettier, easier to use, and a wider world. And that was way back when, before apps and touchscreens and really fine-tuned UI design.
> 
> By the time the BBS is retooled and reinvented sufficiently to appeal to modern users, and maybe serve communities in need of their own self-hosted hub, it'll look very different. It'd probably look like a mishmash of several modern apps, with a curious textmode option attached that few people ever use. There's probably a place for that, but I guarantee that tons of people here would refuse to call it a BBS at that point.
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Worldgroup from Galaticoom had something called Client/Server protocol
It had its own client called Worldgroup Manager that ran native 
applications (win16) and communicated with the server.
The good thing was that you could run several at the same time

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