Subj : Re: BBS Population
To   : Nightfox
From : boraxman
Date : Sun Nov 27 2022 12:58:37

 Ni>  bo> Using BBS's has never been better. No tying up the phone line. Fast, 
 Ni>  bo> speeds. Being able to multitask while you BBS (I generally don't), fa
 Ni>  bo> transfer speeds, being able to access any BBS in the world without ru
 Ni>  bo> up a high phone bill. Just a shame that the quantity of users and boa
 Ni>  bo> isn't what it used to be. 
 Ni> 
 Ni> What you're describing is more like broadband internet which came after
 Ni> BBSes.. One reason why BBSes generally have tended to use a text-based
 Ni> (ANSI) interface is due to the fact that they were typically dialup
 Ni> systems.
 Ni> 

Well, I would say the interface is an integral part of the experience.  Otherwise, it is just a web forum, or a web site, or Usenet.  I do recall using once or two BBS's with images but it seemed just like a webpage.

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

I do tend to only call a few BBS's now, and those are "local".  Though the one I'm on now is in NZ.  Melbourne BBS's seem very very empty, which is odd because FSXNet seems to have a few Melbournians here.  One I use is Minds Eye.

There probably are only enough BBS users in Melbourne, Victoria to support maybe one board.  It would be fantastic to bring back that locality.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

.