Beautiful Bathing Beauties BBS
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kaylus · 2018-11-03 19:56

Was this an advertisement or an actual login to something like a
NAPLPS BBS system? Quality looks a bit too good for NAPLPS but I
figured I would ask :-)

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4_bit_forever · 2018-11-03 20:05

I don't know what NAPLPS means. I do believe this was an actual BBS
ad.

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kaylus · 2018-11-04 00:22

It was a protocol for videotext/teletext - at one point in the early
90s a bunch of utilities were released to make it easy to make
lightweight VGA(ish) images that looked exactly like above, and a
handful of BBS software received/created mods or add-ons to utilize
this. If you used a NAPLPS client you could see in-line VGA images at
the speed of Modem within the BBS.

I never saw a single working BBS with this feature enabled, but I did
play with some NAPLPS BBS software :D

[https://web.archive.org/web/20030323145344/http://rhoads.com/turboard
/](https://web.archive.org/web/20030323145344/http://rhoads.com/turboa
rd/)

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4_bit_forever · 2018-11-04 01:32

When I used BBS around 1992 - 1996 most of them could display gifs
like this

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jdavidramsey · 2018-11-05 02:16

I personally don't remember many that displayed GIFs within the
context of the BBS experience itself. Towards the end, there was one
local BBS running Wildcat 5.x with the browser-like client, but that's
the only one I remember using in my area. I know there were a few
earlier client-server BBS software packages, but I never used any of
them. (Was there one called Excalibur? I remember one having a big ad
push in the BBS magazines like Boardwatch, and I think it was called
Excalibur, but I'm not 100% sure.)

What I do remember is using Windows 3.1 based software (I used QModem
and Telix for Windows) when I was on an image-downloading run, because
it would show most images as they would download, just like in web
browsers.

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jdavidramsey · 2018-11-05 02:20

Those orbs are what happens when Jack Bauer gives Chloe a disk with
BBS GIFs on it and tells her to "enhance."

\*lowers head in shame that a 24 joke is the most topical thing that
came to mind\*

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RolandMT32 · 2018-11-12 22:03

There was a graphical protocol called RIP (Remote Imaging Protocol),
and another graphical client/server system I seem to remember called
RoboBoard.

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kaylus · 2018-11-26 17:41

You must have had a very specific set of BBS' that you dialed - we had
a few hundred in the 813 area code and none of them had similar
graphics. We did have a few RoboBoard with Rip 1.0 and a handful of
Searchlight BBS systems, TriBBS, and a few others that had some
minimum RIP graphics too - a few may have had some BBS Ads like this I
guess but even these required you to download the screen-sets prior to
perusing, so it wasn't exactly prominent and I never saw any with
detailed converted GIF images in them.

Rip 2.0 was supposed to circumvent this a little and allow inline
image viewing but I don't believe many even touched this as the
Internet slammed BBS' out of the water in the mid 90s.

Now, mid-90s I did have QModem for Windows which allowed viewing
images as they downloaded, so you might see something like this if you
downloaded it directly. Oh well, just asking :-)