Sean Dennis wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
Sysops freaked out about sharing user info, but I liked the
telegram-like feel of it. Messaging had gone from multiple day
round-trips with dial-up star/backbone systems to real-time.
Why not just use Telegram and leave the middleman out of it?
Because it was messages, chat, door games, files, and the potential for
much more - all done in a completely different way than the usual FTN,
store and forward means.
Sean Dennis wrote to Jas Hud <=-
Like how nearly every MBBS system in the 90s charged a subscription because the software was so expensive?
I don't miss the multi-line PCBoard/MBBS/whichever pay systems from the '90s.
How are you handling inbound connections on the TBBS instance? Interchange?
A long time ago I mooched everything off tbbs.org when that site was alive, I just gotta find it amongst boxes of CD-R's, LTO tapes, old IDE drives etc.
I was a huge fan of Searchlight as well, as it did Ansi lightbars and
Rip better than ANY other system... hands down. It was all native, totally amazing. Then there was the Spinnaker web server add-on which
was neat...
I was a huge fan of Searchlight as well, as it did Ansi lightbars and Rip better than ANY other system... hands down. It was all native, totally amazing. Then there was the Spinnaker web server add-on which was neat...
i think you're just making things up. you were a member. you should REALLY know instead of pulling shit out of your ass instead by saying "i get the feeling". why is it that i know more about it than you do and i wasn't even a member?
I was a huge fan of Searchlight as well, as it did Ansi lightbars and Rip better than ANY other system... hands down. It was all native, totally amazing. Then there was the Spinnaker web server add-on which was neat...
Well, now I'm curious to check it out...ugh...lol.
I'm hosting TBBS in DosBox and am using IPX within, and then there's a prog that handles the telnet->IPX connection called "tiad-NG". It works well eno :)
Fun fact... tbbs.org is back! Sorta. For a week or so now. There's a renew interest there :)
I was a huge fan of Searchlight as well, as it did Ansi lightbars and better than ANY other system... hands down. It was all native, totally amazing. Then there was the Spinnaker web server add-on which was neat
I was co-sysop of Just Say Yes, one of the more popular 415 BBSes. Dr. Strangelove ran lightbar menus on it, and it felt light-years ahead of all the ASCII BBS menus out there at the time.
Re: Re: BBS Software Timeout Values
By: Jas Hud to Kurt Weiske on Tue Apr 11 2023 03:52 pm
i think you're just making things up. you were a member. you should REALLY know instead of pulling shit out of your ass instead by saying "i get the feeling". why is it that i know more about it than you do and i wasn't even a member?
If anything, you're consistent.
If anything, you're consistent.
i could say the exact same thing about you.
Nick Andre wrote to Jas Hud <=-
i could say the exact same thing about you.
Now now Professor... I'm in Philly next week. I made an open
invitation in Z1C for beer and wings at my expense for anyone
that wants to meetup in person.
Oh wait... you missed the memo. You don't have a node number.
Nick Andre wrote to Ryan Fantus <=-
Let me know when you install Spinnaker, and come to find out that you cannot modify the "dynamic webpages" without.... wait for it....... Borland Paradox.
Nick Andre wrote to Jas Hud <=-
Now now Professor... I'm in Philly next week. I made an open invitation
in Z1C for beer and wings at my expense for anyone that wants to meetup
in person.
Nick Andre wrote to Jas Hud <=-
Oh wait... you missed the memo. You don't have a node number.
Let me know when you install Spinnaker, and come to find out that you cannot modify the "dynamic webpages" without.... wait for it....... Borland Paradox.
I'll put that right next to my Filemaker web server in the dark recesses
of my mind.
We should organize a traveling sysops meetup, now that we can't meet at
a local watering hole. I'm going to be in Boston some time in the next
few weeks, and maybe Texas again. Who's local?
I'll put that right next to my Filemaker web server in the dark
recesses of my mind.
Would those dark recesses also cross into Lotus Notes territory?
Nick Andre wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
Let me know when you install Spinnaker, and come to find out that you cannot modify the "dynamic webpages" without.... wait for it....... Borland Paradox.
I'll put that right next to my Filemaker web server in the dark recesses of my mind.
Would those dark recesses also cross into Lotus Notes territory?
Nick Andre wrote to Sean Dennis <=-
And that new Sysop usually vanishes a few months later. Usually with no notice to his Echomail hub either.
Jas Hud wrote to Sean Dennis <=-
well when i was writing that i'm talking about the telnet age, not
dialup age.
during the dialup years, i did subscribe to some of those and it was because they provided internet access when it was crummy in my area.
Jas Hud wrote to Sean Dennis <=-
he used a bad example. what it was, was the boards all had their data files linked. so same doorgames, msg areas, user files, etc.
Kurt Weiske wrote to Sean Dennis <=-
Because it was messages, chat, door games, files, and the potential for much more - all done in a completely different way than the usual FTN, store and forward means.
Kurt Weiske wrote to Sean Dennis <=-
Sean Dennis wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
What Jaron Lanier was talking about was a micropayment system where you could compensate content on the web, in payments of fraction of cents
to sub-dollar amounts on a one-time basis to content creators in an unstructured way - imagine seeing a relevant post on Linkedin and
having the like button transfer 10 cents to the author. readers forward and share the content. Scale takes care of the rest.
Kurt Weiske wrote to Sean Dennis <=-
Where running a BBS became more lucrative was at the quarterly (or more often) get-togethers. Many pints of beer and coffee were bought for me which meant more than the subscriptions.
Jas Hud wrote to Sean Dennis <=-
well when i was writing that i'm talking about the telnet age, not dialup age.
I knew of several MBBS systems that supported both POTS and telnet in the 90s.
Jas Hud wrote to Sean Dennis <=-
he used a bad example. what it was, was the boards all had their data files linked. so same doorgames, msg areas, user files, etc.
To me that is not anything individulistic but more of a hivemind.
Sean Dennis wrote to Jas Hud <=-
My friend started a dialup ISP in the 90s and eventully sold it to Earthlink for a tidy profit.
| Sysop: | Tetrazocine |
|---|---|
| Location: | Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
| Users: | 13 |
| Nodes: | 8 (0 / 8) |
| Uptime: | 243:18:04 |
| Calls: | 211 |
| Files: | 21,502 |
| Messages: | 83,318 |