Sorry, but the ship has sailed. I ran a BBS and FidoNET node (and even a hub) and it was the golden era of computers for me. Sadly, there's just no way that w

Sorry, but the ship has sailed. I ran a BBS and FidoNET node (and even a hub) and it was the golden era of computers for me. Sadly, there's just no way that we could ever drum up the sustained interest to (re)build a semi-private network with a high technical bar again. People simply don't have the time. It was the era before smartphones and social media and Netflix and most people came home from work and watched cable TV or read books and most average people never conversed with other people outside their immediate sphere. It was new and novel but that feeing is long gone. Now people get into arguments online and don't even appreciate the long chain of technology that makes it so instantaneous. Believe me, I would ditch all of this tech and go back to 1992 in an instant if it was a viable option but let's be real: we've been discussing this in the semi-annul Fido and Usenet HN posts for years and yet, here we are. The only way this could happen is if some techno-elites with name recognition decided to recreate it. Even then, it would probably die quickly. Remember Ello?