Post AzFohugmztUr9bLmYy by letoram@infosec.exchange
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 (DIR) Post #AzFgdTN9op5ndoXUps by MLE_online@social.afront.org
       2025-10-15T17:54:44Z
       
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       @mitten No, this is cool to hear about. We should bring back bulletin boards
       
 (DIR) Post #AzFgdUNC6AiSkDZ2X2 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-10-16T01:59:17Z
       
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       @MLE_online @mitten They literally never left. Forums are BBSs. Seriously, same thing. I find them very useful for persistent conversations especially specific subject questions. In the BBS days there was usually or often one thread per board, or area. Not there can be many.  But human user count is up by 10K times. Many chatty type boards (subject areas) were just forums where posts were deleted after X days.Very simple tech.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzFgmtJSk58ihTIn9k by MLE_online@social.afront.org
       2025-10-16T02:00:58Z
       
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       @tomjennings @mitten When I say we should bring them back, I mean we should bring them back as a relevant and popular place for online socializing and discourse. I bet the vast majority of people online now have never used a forum, much less something calling itself a BBS
       
 (DIR) Post #AzFih5AzvAXPfHhVLM by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-10-16T02:22:23Z
       
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       @MLE_online @mitten Ahh sorry I misunderstood. You think so? Interesting... I'm on pjrc.com, for teensy, great place, everyone's really nice to each other. Vcfed.org for cp/m stuff. Just those two, invaluable, irreplaceable expertise and question threads that can persist for weeks. They're just great. Gained knowledge can get pinned. Forums are great.  But ones oriented to socializing, I know of none. Slightly different configurations.  I wonder if phpbb can delete by age?
       
 (DIR) Post #AzFjfMCdkJJNqYD5EG by MLE_online@social.afront.org
       2025-10-16T02:33:13Z
       
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       @tomjennings  PJRC and Vcfed are sooooo niche
       
 (DIR) Post #AzFohugmztUr9bLmYy by letoram@infosec.exchange
       2025-10-16T03:29:44Z
       
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       @tomjennings @MLE_online @mitten https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/There might be "some" rose-tinted glasses syndrome here, but I still frequent a handful of early-00 style forums/communities and the experience I have there is substantially different from the phone bill crushing ones of BBSes.The BBSes I both frequented (2:200) and one-off-visited was more of stepping into someone's disorganised computing living room - chaotic yet personal.To me, gained knowledge and discussion was a possible side effect (and often the library was .. just better for that) -- it was the path of exploration, discovery and interrupts. Interactive fiction that bit back.From a phone number graffiti on a pole next to the computer shop; the ATDT anticipation; the "oh f-ck" when a groggy and angry human voice picked up on the other end at 2AM; the ANSI human skull with a login prompt in the mouth; grabbing some .diz and getting another number that way; the jump scare from the sysop breaking into chat.