Subj : Re: Where is everybody?
To   : Alonzo
From : tassiebob
Date : Sat Jun 24 2023 08:08 pm


 Al> So where is everybody? It looks like the only people using bulletin
 Al> boards these days are other sysops. Here's the big question: How can we
 Al> get more users?

Good question.

 Al> boards are a great means of communication. I had one for about 5 years
 Al> back in the early 1990s and it was quite popular.

The difference is that back then the average person didn't have access to the internet.  BBS's were pretty much the way to talk electronically to other people, be they in your own city or on the other side of the world.

Fast forward a few years and the internet was no longer just for defence and academia and the nerds of the day, and the mums & dad's, started using that instead.

I enjoy the BBS world because my BBS mailbox isn't full of spam, multinationals aren't analysing everything I look at and using that information "against" me (to target advertising), and I enjoy retro computing.

Other people enjoy the BBS world for their own reasons :-)

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