(untitled) lainchan / tech ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-05 21:37 Have you had experience with Bulletin board systems? What was is? Maybe we should run our BBS? Is it enough /cyb/ so we could start this trend again? Or lainchan already have it and I don't know? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-05 23:34 >>11565 would learn how to access BBS's just to use this thing, make it happen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-05 23:48 I used to post on SDF's bbs like program before. It's just a CLI message board. I don't see it being as cyb as a regular web message board. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-06 08:09 I'm too young to have ever been a part of the BBS days; however, I'm fascinated by them. There's just some kind of mystique to it that you don't get anymore. Please tell me there's some still alive and active somewhere? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-06 17:53 >>11573 Connecting to bbs is via telnet. I guess that on windows you can use putty, and on Linux you use only 'telnet' command which goes like this: "telnet lainchan.org". >>11606 Unfortunately I'm also too young and didn't have chance to be on active bss. Most of them today are dead, but still accesible. You just need to google it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-06 19:25 Thank you for this thread, OP. I wanted to get into BBS surfing as well, but I hit a couple of dead ones (like, couldn't even connect) and gave up. Most of BBSes are probably dead now, but there must be some somewhat active ones. If you're into BBSes, I also suggest you play a game called Digital: A Love Story. It can be downloaded for free here: http://scoutshonour.com/digital/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-07 17:16 >>11647 Whoa, thanks for the game. Recently, I've discovered game called TIS-100. I guess I will spend a lot of time playing games now, which i don't usually do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-07 19:49 >>11565 i hung out on TFP (the floating pancreas) telnet BBS when i was younger w/ the S.I.N crew. i miss those days. i'm still into ascii/ansi art b/c of it. i'd be down to make a new one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-07 20:27 http://wwwtxt.org/tagged/txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-07 20:33 Would anyone be interest in a lainchan bitmessage group? I'd be willing to set one up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-07 22:17 >>11717 i would try it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-07 23:09 I caught an interest in them a while back. Went looking around for living ones and didn't find much. Sad. >>11717 That would be pretty cool. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-07 23:21 What I would really be interested in is a BBS style interface for lainchan as-is over ssh. Similar to browsing this site with a text browser like links, but designed to look good in a terminal. So basically this site without images, over ssh instead of telnet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-07 23:50 >>11736 boingo that way i could use a hmd to go on lainchan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-08 00:17 >>11717 Yes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-08 06:28 >>11717 I'm interested too. But isn't it similar to Retroshare? I still prefer bss-like thing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-08 07:18 >>11736 On the same note, I would like to make a terminal browser where the site looks like a ncurses program. Like mapping some css to ncurses properties, I don't know. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-08 08:34 >>11753 Is it really possible? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-08 21:17 >>11755 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m http://www.howtogeek.com/103574/how-to-browse-from-the-linux-terminal- with-w3m/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-09 14:45 >>11736 Screwing around with browsing Lainchan text only and this is what I've got using a couple of minutes and piping between far too many programs then to less in the end ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-09 14:52 >>11835 Although it would be inhumanly easy to do in a language other than bash, honestly ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-09 15:00 >>11835 >>11837 Yeah, I'm going to put together a curses program in python for it, then maybe I'll port it to C++ if I have the motivation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-11 00:28 >>11606 >>11634 >>11647 Doing it like a boss on a c64! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCicz04EwwQ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-13 07:49 >>11944 That is beautiful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-13 13:35 >>11944 holy crap it's SO SLOW but yeah interesting video! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-13 18:44 >>11753 >>11755 I think you could also hack firefox so that it patches the css and sends specific requests like "no JS please", "I'm in text-only mode", etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-13 18:59 >>12147 and then we can make a js extension to use keyboard shortcuts and wam bam we got bbs for lainchan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-19 00:25 >>11944 >cost to run for 4 years >$10,000 Holy soykaf . >>11565 Judging by the cost cited by the video here >>11944 for running one over a phone line, you might want to have people use telnet to connect to it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-19 02:41 >>11565 >>11755 Here's one for reddit: https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-19 03:05 I once browsed a Taiwanese BBS called PTT (apparently BBSs are still popular there for some reason, kind of like how fax is still used in Japan i guess) via an in-browser client and once I tried to use one that has been around since the 80s/90s and was talked about on some podcast I was linked to but I couldn't really figure out what I was even doing I don't even know if BBSs were ever even popular in the UK >>11647 Digital: A Love Story is great, I'd also recommend it's sort-of- sequels Don't take it personally babe and Analogue: A Hate Story if you enjoyed it ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-19 03:05 >>12510 oops, left my sage on ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OP · 2015-10-19 07:22 >>12510 I've already beaten Analogue, was interesting. Can't finish Hate Plus, because I'd have to bake a cake. :"D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-19 07:22 >>12517 Oops, accidentally left my name on. I'm not the OP of this thread. :^( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-19 21:12 >>11565 >>11606 http://www.telnetbbsguide.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-19 21:27 Maybe it could be some special prepared website which would allow connections with links/w3m browser-like only. I'm not into interwebz but I think it's possible, isn't it? Of course there will be that one person which would avoid this protection, eh. The question is: would be possible to implement things like games on this website and would graphics be compatible with our different terminals? I think that BBS through telnet would be better that website. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-10-29 22:03 >>12510 I had no idea Analogue was related to Digital. I'll actually have to check it out now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-11-20 23:35 >>11717 I would definitely try it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-11-21 18:32 >>11835 good work anon. >>11753 That sounds like an autism nightmare. I would like to see it though ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-11-21 19:30 there was a /cyber/ bbs about a year ago but it shut down out of nowhere in late December and I never heard any more about it ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-11-24 19:37 >>11565 Look up u413. It was a shotgun.js implementation of a browser BBS. It was shway as fuark, but the guy who ran it was a total fag. TheWiz's gibson BBS was a superior site by far, but oh well. soykaf died, what do you expect? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-11-26 19:56 >>11565 Was browsing one few years ago, I think the demogroup TiTAN had a pretty nice one few years go. Could not find it, and not sure if it was titan. Here: http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ I found a list for you OP, i tried one and used the client PCManX 1.2 for fedora. The best ones are filled with ASCii, good luck happy browsing :) / I am also too young for this stuff, but active in the demoscene few years ago producing music for a group. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-11-27 21:53 Did anyone here set up an account on any BBS? There are a lot of BBSes it seems but I just can't decide on any. I would want to use a somewhat active one... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2015-12-02 18:10 Fullchan /tech/ had a bbs a while back. It was ok, but even on a chan that size it only got light use. On a related note, check out telehack. It's a really fun game. http://telehack.com/