Subj : Re: BBS Population
To   : Bex
From : paulie420
Date : Wed Oct 12 2022 17:44:33

 Be> Pa> Hell no - l00k around; we got active FTNs, plenty of rad/active bbSes,
 Be> Pa> modders, groups, ANSI - we've got a bbSphere!
 Be> 
 Be> I could be wrong, because I was out of the BBS scene since I shut down my
 Be> last board in the late-90s, so I have no actual data on this, but it
 Be> seems like there was a major lull around 2008-2016 or so, and then
 Be> things started to make a comeback about then. Then another lull around,
 Be> and then the pandemic.

LOL - Yer prolly right; I came back around in 2o17 or so. :P HA.

 Be> I do still think that we are in the end BBS times, once this group of
 Be> nostalgia-seeking Gen Xers (I'm proudly in that group) moves on, there
 Be> isn't going to be anyone who wants to bring it back. The nostalgia window
 Be> is a moving window, driven mostly by people in their 40s and 50s. As they
 Be> age out, the new group is nostalgia for other experiences.

I don't think we're in the end - but more of the aftermath. I mean back in the bbS heyday, the activity and userspace of bbSes was HUGE; weaving all over America and other countries the same... it was the 'pre-internet' - it'll never be that again, but I'm hoping that WE can keep bbSes at the current level for the unforeseeable future. 

I know that for as long as I have internet and a homelab, I'll be running 2o - thats the commitment that I'm giving to the 'bbS world'... I think with US, THIS is the new 'bbSphere'. :P



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