On 06/28/18 11:45, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2018-06-28, Jim Lee <jle...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 06/28/18 07:34, Grant Edwards wrote:
OK, I've got to ask...
Why are there still BBSes?
Who even has a modem these days? [OK, I'll admit my 11 year old
Thinkpad T500 has a built-in POTS modem, but it's never been used.]
BBS's are most often connected to via telnet these days. There are
still hundreds (if not thousands) of them.
Interesting. In my exerience a BBS was just a poor substitute for an
FTP site, a mailing list and Usenet.
I'm a little baffled as to what "added value" they provide these days,
but people are probably equally baffled why I choose to participate in
mailing lists via a text-mode NNTP client rather that some
pointy-clicky app or website.
Added value? BBS, Usenet, IRC, Twitter, whatever - they're all just
forms of communication.
BBS's were around before ARPANET became the Internet - before ftp,
usenet, http, and personal computers. I first started using them in
1976-77 (with a 300 baud modem and a VT-52 terminal), and ran my own in
the 80's and 90's - first on a PDP-11/23, then a Commodore 64 and later
on an Amiga. Some people like to keep that tradition alive.
-Jim
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