Subj : Re: BBS Population
To   : boraxman
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Nov 25 2022 20:19:57

  Re: Re: BBS Population
  By: boraxman to SoDa7 on Fri Nov 25 2022 09:22 pm

 bo> Using BBS's has never been better. No tying up the phone line. Fast, FAST
 bo> speeds. Being able to multitask while you BBS (I generally don't), fast
 bo> transfer speeds, being able to access any BBS in the world without running
 bo> up a high phone bill. Just a shame that the quantity of users and boards
 bo> isn't what it used to be. 

What you're describing is more like broadband internet which came after BBSes.. One reason why BBSes generally have tended to use a text-based (ANSI) interface is due to the fact that they were typically dialup systems.

I agree it's nice to use BBSes these days though.  And being able to connect to any BBS in the world is good - though in the dialup days, I think one cool thing about BBSes is that since they tended to be local, pretty much all the users were in the same area, so there was a sense of local community there.  Some BBSes had meetups too, but that's not easy if most of the users are spread out across the world.

Nightfox
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