16 Nov
2000
16 Nov
'00
10:17 a.m.
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:
What you perhaps fail to realize is the a "BBS" is an expression of an
extremely ancient human trait (sit around and flame each other :-) The dial
in kind of the 70's gave way to vastness of Usenet and are now being
replaced by web sites that behave in much the same way. All we've done is
removed the modem and xmodem and replaced them with web browsers and ftp. A
telnet version of a BBS would be even easier. I think this is sort of
exemplified in what Slashdot does.
You can find telnettable BBS's (RBBS, Fido, WWIV, etc.) by searching
around. Be sure your Telnet program is ansi-compatible, or you'll
miss some R377Y K3WL FX! :-)