7 Modern BBSes Worth Calling Today reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- athen66 · 2017-12-28 20:19 Damn, mine didn't make the cut ;( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2017-12-29 04:18 meh ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-12-29 04:29 Awesome that Black Flag is on here ---------------------------------------------------------------------- McDutchie · 2017-12-29 10:05 > Net neutrality isn't a problem on these vintage online systems Net neutrality is actually the *only* reason you can use the Internet to connect to these systems in the first place. Absent net neutrality, archaic protocols like telnet are the first to go. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- retrolinuz · 2017-12-29 10:35 Awesome, thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cloverskull · 2017-12-29 19:07 I guess we can fall back to ssh? Maybe it'll be a forcing function for us to move away from insecure telnet. That said, I'm skeptical ports will start getting locked down, or protocols, but we'll see. It's really anybody's guess at this point. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- luvjOi · 2017-12-31 03:17 Your bbs and Alcoholiday should’ve been on there too ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2018-01-01 22:01 this will not happen. I'd bet 100 dollars today it will not have affected telnet or any other port 5 years from now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cloverskull · 2018-01-02 07:20 I'd be inclined to agree, *but* the whole IOT with unsecured/easy-to- guess telnet login credentials may dictate otherwise. We'll see. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2018-01-02 07:26 I agree about that, but at the same time, it negotiates itself quite a bit. I think, just like we see the re-emergence of quite a fruitful bbs culture 20-30 years later, we will see that any capitalistic environment will leave any channel which MIGHT bring traffic open. Who knows, we all may be untra-retro using copper lines and ditching digital in 20 years. Doubtful, but look at vinyl. Edit: dumb grammar ---------------------------------------------------------------------- istarian · 2018-01-17 02:13 There's really no reason, for the most part, for anyone to go out of their way to block protocols and port blocking is easily circumvented by using different ports. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- oldasdirt74 · 2018-02-07 05:32 Nice list. I remember calling BBS's on my old Tandy. Procomm + baby!