Come check a revisioning of one of the oldest styles of BBS
reddit / bbs

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dialsoft · 2022-02-14 03:54

[www.magviz.ca](https://www.magvis.ca)

modeled after the old schook ddial chat bbs and it changing rapidly.
Get in on the ground floor.

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dialsoft · 2022-02-14 03:55

www.magviz.ca

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spish · 2022-02-14 15:03

Any chance you'd be willing to share the source?

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dialsoft · 2022-02-14 15:40

Ask the sysop. His handle is Winter. #001

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SqualorTrawler · 2022-02-15 04:24

If you don't know what Diversi-Dial is, you can [have a look at this
Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversi-Dial).  In the
middle-to-late 80s, before most people had Internet accounts, this is
what multi-user chat looked like.

Fire up your terminal program, connect to an Apple // computer with a
bunch of modems hanging off of it, and chat in plain text at 300 baud.

The lines could also be used to call other ddials and link them in
something not entirely unlike an IRC network, except over phone lines.

As for long distance charges, it is rumored, "there's a way around
that."

[Allegedly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet#PC_Pursuit)...

[Although quite
possibly](http://cd.textfiles.com/group42/PHREAK/PHREAKS.HTM)...

At an age when people would actually form dumb tribes around computer
platforms, 300 baud ASCII was amazingly egalitarian.  No matter what
computer you had, you were looking at slow, 300 baud text in plain
ASCII.  No ANSI, no emoticons, just...plain text.

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PaulLee420 · 2022-03-15 02:23

Neat - I logged in tonight. :P Thanks for creating this - I always
like jumping in to past ways of communicating, whether BBSing,
kdx/hotine'ing or otherwise.

Another cool 'BBS' creation is [klud.ge:23](https://klud.ge:23) on
ANSI telnet... the dev created his own BBS-style software with
threaded messaging.

I appreciate that you developed this, and its made my bookmarks. Hope
you come by 2o fOr beeRS, but I'm just a standard ANSI telnet BBS. :P

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dialsoft · 2022-03-15 02:28

Thanks Paul, I was Marc there tonight.

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dialsoft · 2022-03-15 02:29

whats the address for the 2o fOr beeRS

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PaulLee420 · 2022-03-16 02:04

[20ForBeers.com:1337](https://20ForBeers.com:1337) (ANSi Telnet)

[20ForBeers.com:1339](https://20ForBeers.com:1339) (www)

[20ForBeers.com:10700](https://20ForBeers.com:10700) (KDX/Hotline)