I used to run a C64 CNet based BBS (Tomcat BBS's were very popular in my area). One thing that CNet did that none of the others did was allow you to buffer ANS

I used to run a C64 CNet based BBS (Tomcat BBS's were very popular in my area). One thing that CNet did that none of the others did was allow you to buffer ANSI/ASCII keystrokes and then play it all back. This resulted in a 'stop motion' style ANSI art "movies". Some of my users were quite good at making these movies, incredibly entertaining too.