It's been over 25 years since I first logged onto this BBS, when DM had a 1-800 number and I could log in from the east coast.
It's funny how the people that told me about dial-up BBS's weren't interested when I told them that BBS's could be accesed via telnet ssh.
It's been over 25 years since I first logged onto this BBS, when DM had a 1-800 number and I could log in from the east coast.
It will take me a bit to get used to the messaging again, for some reason i can't figure out how to keep the original message when im replying.
I recieved alot of help here learning Slackware from a user named The Lion. Now that I'm retired/disabled i'll have alot of time on my hands.
Re: Good to be back
By: Bogomips to All on Tue Feb 25 2025 05:15 am
It's been over 25 years since I first logged onto this BBS, when DM had a 1-800
number
and I could log in from the east coast.
I don't remember having a 1-800 number, but welcome back just the same!
I thought I dialed into your BBS before you made it accesible via telnet.
Either way, I'm glad to be active again.
Re: Good to be back
By: MRO to Bogomips on Tue Feb 25 2025 07:52 pm
thanks
It's funny how the people that told me about dial-up BBS's weren't interested when I told them that BBS's could be accesed via telnet ssh.
Re: Good to be back
By: Bogomips to All on Tue Feb 25 2025 05:15 am
It's funny how the people that told me about dial-up BBS's weren't interested when I told them that BBS's could be accesed via telnet ssh.
I have also found this to be true. Seems like a lot of my sysop buds
from
the 80's don't want anything to do with BBSes anymore.
we just have the nostalgia jerk offs who come and go and the sysops visiting sysops thing.
people prefer facebook, instagram, snapchat or stuff like that.
i prefer telegram, so i can't blame them.
Bf2k+ wrote to Bogomips <=-
I have also found this to be true. Seems like a lot of my sysop buds from the 80's don't want anything to do with BBSes anymore.
Re: Good to be back
By: Bogomips to MRO on Wed Feb 26 2025 05:14 am
Re: Good to be back
By: MRO to Bogomips on Tue Feb 25 2025 07:52 pm
thanks
did you try quoting
Re: Good to be back
By: Bogomips to All on Tue Feb 25 2025 05:15 am
It's funny how the people that told me about dial-up BBS's weren't interested when
I
told them that BBS's could be accesed via telnet ssh.
I have also found this to be true. Seems like a lot of my sysop buds from the 80's
don't want anything to do with BBSes anymore.
I don't remember having a 1-800 number, but welcome back just the same!
I thought I dialed into your BBS before you made it accesible via telnet.
Re: Good to be back
By: MRO to Bogomips on Tue Feb 25 2025 07:52 pm
thanks
did you try quoting
I thought I did at first, but then I read the menu again, and tried select all, and it works. Thanks again.
I have also found this to be true. Seems like a lot of my sysop buds from the 80's don't want anything to do with BBSes anymore.
Maybe the sysops just didn't want to re-configure something they didn't understand?
For me it was a guy i worked with and i just didn't understand why that logging on differently would matter.
it's a weird thing. i got in touch with some sysops from my local area and we were SUPER tight back then. they didn't want anything to do with eachother or me. they were done with bbsing.
people left bbsing behind for good. there's other things they'd rather
do.
I don't remember having a 1-800 number, but welcome back just the same!
I thought I dialed into your BBS before you made it accesible via telnet.
He might not have had an 800 number, but that doesn't mean there wasn't one forwarding
to
his BBS ;).
there ya go! you're doing it!did you try quotingI thought I did at first, but then I read the menu again, and tried select all, and
it
works. Thanks again.
people left bbsing behind for good. there's other things they'd rather do.
I have also found this to be true. Seems like a lot of my sysop buds from
the 80's don't want anything to do with BBSes anymore.
Maybe the sysops just didn't want to re-configure something they didn't understand?
dude i spent so much time and money
into getting old bbs people back
into
the hobby. After many years, i know
it
will never happen. the most they
will
do is speak about the old days. i
ran
so many sites, i bought so many ads
for
people's bbses and i've done all
kinds
of shit.
we just have the nostalgia jerk offs
who come and go and the sysops
visiting
sysops thing.
people prefer facebook, instagram,
snapchat or stuff like that.
i prefer telegram, so i can't blame
them.
I know for myself, I find most of the other things to be "life stealers". I'm almost to the point that I wouldn't mind going back to a flip phone, almost.
Yep.. one of my friends came over here a couple of months ago for me to help him with the firmware on his nautical GPS (because I had a few old pentiums running Win XP).
He was very involved in the development of the old Atari BBS:Express systems and did some cool stuff. He was not even interested is seeing my BBS stuff or either of my current BBSes. I found that a a little odd... in light of the fact that he was so involved before.
Yes, I've had that experience too. In two years of work, I brought a 40-year-old C64 BBS from Hamburg back online. Most people just come in to say hello, register as a new user, and then you never see them again. They just want a quick nostalgia flash. Am I disappointed because of that? Yes and no. On one hand, it's a shame we no longer have the traffic from 1985. The BBS heyday is simply over. Not very surprising.
Hi Mro,
In a message to Bogomips you wrote:
people left bbsing behind for good. there's other things they'd rather do.
I didn't think I'd shut my system down, but when I realized I was just running it for myself it was an easy decision.
I'm much happier just using my current setup, tossing QWK packets into squish bases.
But yeah, other then over coffee in the morning before work I don't think about this hobby anymore, as you said lots of things I'd rather do.
Shawn
Re: Good to be back
By: MRO to Bogomips on Fri Feb 28 2025 02:25 am
people left bbsing behind for good. there's other things they'd rather do.
I know for myself, I find most of the other things to be "life stealers". I'm almost to the point that I wouldn't mind going back to a flip phone, almost.
They may no longer have PCs. A lot of people only use their phones or tablets at home. Most of my siblings, who used to have PCs, don't use PCs at all anymore except at work.
So yeah, I'm off Facebook, I'm off Twitter, or X or whatever it is now, I'm off Instagram; you name it, I'm off it. And I don't think I've ever gone ON TikTok.
Thanks for that little dose of reality.
They may no longer have PCs. A lot of people only use their phones or tablets at home. Most of my siblings, who used to have PCs, don't use PCs at all anymore except at work.
They may no longer have PCs. A lot of people only use their phones or tablets at home. Most of my siblings, who used to have PCs, don't use PCs at all anymore except at work.
Thats a damn shame. I cannot stand using my phone for anything. Its a pain in the ass.
I've also seen a number of people who sign up and visit just once and never again. Or maybe they'll play a door game like LORD for a little
bit and then stop.
During the BBS heyday, BBSes and dialup modems was the technology we had at the time. I think most people probably don't care as much about the technology, but more about there being ways of connecting online in general somewhere, and being easy to do so.
I still think BBSing is pretty cool though, and it was pretty cool that
we had modems, which allowed computers to communicate with each other
over phone lines, which enabled a lot of things. And as others have
said, there is significantly less spam & ads on BBSes compared to social networks, which is nice.
They may no longer have PCs. A lot of people only use their phones or tablets at home. Most of my siblings, who used to have PCs, don't use at all anymore except at work.
Thats a damn shame. I cannot stand using my phone for anything. Its a pain in the ass.
so that's why it's all up. i still have my irc up even though it's a small group of friends and i think bridging it with telegram was a
good move.
i'm used to having a community. What we have left is not that. it's
fine if people like what they have but i don't agree. it's not that i
Hopefully the users come back, but I think they're gone for good.
for little toddlers for learning devices but from what i've seen
people aren't big tablet users anymore. our phones are so big it's
like we have tablets.
i think it's laptops and phones for most people nowadays.
Dumas Walker wrote to BOGOMIPS <=-
They may no longer have PCs. A lot of people only use their phones or tablets at home. Most of my siblings, who used to have PCs, don't use
PCs at all anymore except at work.
Toadster wrote to Bogomips <=-
So yeah, I'm off Facebook, I'm off Twitter, or X or whatever it is now, I'm off Instagram; you name it, I'm off it. And I don't think I've ever gone ON TikTok.
I think TikTok is the only social media I can trust these days. It's an odd world we live in.
time. I think most people probably
don't care as much about the
technology, but more about there
being
ways of connecting online in general
somewhere, and being easy to do so.
I still think BBSing is pretty cool
though, and it was pretty cool that
we
had modems, which allowed computers
to
communicate with each other over
phone
lines, which enabled a lot of
things.
And as others have said, there is
significantly less spam & ads on
BBSes
compared to social networks, which
is
nice.
are tablets even popular anymore? I can understand them being popular for little toddlers for learning devices but from what i've seen people aren't big
tablet users anymore. our phones are so big it's like we have tablets.
i think it's laptops and phones for most people nowadays.
They may no longer have PCs. A lot of people only use their phones or tablets at home. Most of my siblings, who used to have PCs, don't use PCs at all anymore except at work.
One of my friends, years later, was running a Dec Alpha system with a
MIPS RISC chip, back from when Microsoft supported it with NT. I think
it was running NT Server 3.51? He had IIS running on it and used it as a desktop...
Another caller had an IBM RS/6000 system he still used as a desktop.
Those are some serious computer users. There are folks like that in the FSX Retro echo, too. Your average person, and people who moved away from the BB hobby, probably didn't keep up with the old tech.
I know for myself, I find most of the other things to be "life stealers". I'm almost to the point that I wouldn't mind going back to a flip phone, almost.
are tablets even popular anymore? I can understand them being popular for little toddlers for learning devices but from what i've seen people aren't big tablet users anymore. our phones are so big it's like we have tablets.
pain in the ass.
yeah, doing any real work on a cellphone is dreadful.. especially using SSH from remote to try to diagnose some problem while you're supposed to be on vacation..
Hopefully the users come back, but I think they're gone for good.
When musk cuts the rest of the world off the 'merican internet possibly BBS's will make a come back.
Shawn
flip phone that is supported enough I can use it for sending money to co workers at luch, and for running the stupid auth program for work stuff.
I gave the company phone back and chose to install auth on mine because I didn't want to feel bad about ignoring phone calls on the work one. :)
Shawn
have tablets.
I don't see much people using tablets at all. Usually it is just sales people, because tablets allow them to show you cataloges and product sheet from a big screen, voiding the need of carrying paperbacks and the need of carrying a full laptop.
Other than that I don't see any tablet use anymore. Even the people who used them for reading pirated books has switched to ereaders.
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Other than that I don't see any tablet use anymore. Even the people who used them for reading pirated books has switched to ereaders.
I always wanted an old Sun at home - a Sparc 2 like I'd had at work, a Sparcstation LX, or an old Sun 3. It might be nice to pretend like it's 1995 again, and that Javascript, HTML emails and phishing scams don't exist.
are tablets even popular anymore? I can understand them
being popular for little toddlers for learning devices but
from what i've seen people aren't big tablet users anymore.
our phones are so big it's like we have tablets.
I don't see much people using tablets at all. Usually it is
just sales people, because tablets allow them to show you
cataloges and product sheet from a big screen, voiding the
need of carrying paperbacks and the need of carrying a full
laptop.
Other than that I don't see any tablet use anymore. Even
the people who used them for reading pirated books has
switched to ereaders. --
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