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I miss the good old days of BBSes, the late 90s were a serious step back in forum usability. Until JS came along, reading online forums on a broadband internet
by com2kid 4y ago
I miss the good old days of BBSes, the late 90s were a serious step back in forum usability.
Until JS came along, reading online forums on a broadband internet connection was a worse user experience than using BBS forum software on a dial up modem.
Every single action, full page reload. And until cloud computing came along, even the best of website forums had servers that took forever to respond.
Somehow a BBS written for a 386 16mhz in 1992 was faster than a forum written in 1999 or even 2005. Oh wait, the 1992 forum was likely written in C, or even assembly! (And it only had 1 user at a time, that helped!)