Subj : Re: BBS Population
To   : Nightfox
From : paulie420
Date : Thu Oct 13 2022 18:28:36

 Ni>  pa> I don't think we're in the end - but more of the aftermath. I mean ba
 Ni>  pa> the bbS heyday, the activity and userspace of bbSes was HUGE..
 Ni> 
 Ni> I had heard there's still a big BBS (mainly underground) scene in China
 Ni> due to their information censorship.  I've been curious to see if I can
 Ni> try using some of them, but I imagine most of them are probably in
 Ni> Chinese, which I don't read..

Yea, so - I also know the Taiwanese PTT/PTT2(etc) bbSes are still r0cking strong. They used to have hundreds of thousands of users, even dwarfing what was our bbS 'normal' back in the heyday...

Concerning those two countries' bbS communities, I wonder what it would take to login and see their bbSes... w/ PTT, I think you'd need a Taiwanese font (and a translator program). Previously I tried to make a user account, by using Google Picture Translate, but never got a user account fully created..

PTT is supposed to have great ANSI (or textmode anyway) art, and I bet the 'underground' Chinese bbSes would be a cool community to be able to get into... I suppose you'd really need to go at in on a different angle, and get a local bbS user to help. :P



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