Subj : Re: What do you get out of running a BBS?
To   : Nightfox
From : Morgul
Date : Wed Apr 07 2021 09:26 pm

BY: Nightfox(21:1/137)


|11N|09> |10For the BBS sysops out there, what motivates you to keep running a BBS?|07
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I had just graduated from College and moved about 80 miles from home to start a career.  I discovered BBSs, and fell in love with them - the conecpt of emailing and talking with people all over the country appealed to me.  I started my BBS in 1992 and ran it for 10 years.  I made a lot of great friends and had a lot of fun on there, and I learned how to program by modding my BBS.

Over the years, I'd kept in touch with some SysOps that were still running their boards and were still improving it.  One piece of software I'd written was still being used, and I'd given the source to someone to make some modifications to it.  They kept me in the loop about what was going on, and I decided to give it a whirl and see if I could bring my board back online and run it.  As I got into building it back, I went through my old BBS files, and the flood of memories was almost overwhelming.  I'd forgotten just how much fun BBSing had been.  I'd made a lot of friendships that have continued to this day.

I know I'll never rekindle the popularity of BBSing in the 1990s.  But I'm enjoying running the BBS, it's helping me get back into programming, and I'm enjoying making new friends.

-Morgul

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