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So can we have a BBS revival now? :) I wonder what are the differences that make vinyl have a revival but not bbs via ssh.
by fimdomeio 7y ago
So can we have a BBS revival now? :)
I wonder what are the differences that make vinyl have a revival but not bbs via ssh.
- tastroder 7y agoThere seems to be quite a few BBS systems with SSH as a connection option out there: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/connection/ssh/ https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/connection/ssh/ :-)
- snazz 7y agoA wrote a little one in Perl a few years ago. The primary challenges were the same ones you would have with any curses application and annoying input latency. The users were also constantly trying to escape to a shell, but I don’t remember any of them succeeding. If you thought websites were centralized, try a system where every keystroke gets mirrored to the server!
- icedchai 7y agoTo think, interactive curses apps like that used to be the norm. It was much simpler building apps that way, compared to web apps. I rarely used curses when I built my own stuff in the 90's. I generated ANSI escape sequences myself...
- gglitch 7y agoI think it’s underway. The keywords are “pubnix” and “phlog.”
- icedchai 7y agoI ran a BBS over SSH and telnet in the mid 90's through early 2000's. All users had restricted shells (the BBS app.) There's many, many BBSes out there, but most of them are dead... almost no activity. I would really like to see a Usenet / NNTP revival.