Subj : Re: Where is everybody?
To   : fusion
From : tenser
Date : Sun Jun 25 2023 08:31 am

On 24 Jun 2023 at 04:02p, fusion pondered and said...
 
 fu> i'd say from like 98-04 or so was basically a bunch of telnet BBSes
 fu> fighting for the last of the BBS callers who figured out what telnet
 fu> was. tbh they were probably driven away. some big BBSes made the jump to
 fu> telnet and then closed up soon after, and most newer ones were around a
 fu> couple weeks and then disappeared.

That sounds about right.  It didn't help that a lot of
sysops coming out of the dial-up era were little mini-Stalins
and control freaks that got off on imposing their will on
their callers.  Why bother with that when I get more
interesting, higher-quality content, without the stupid
shenanigans?

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