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your whole description (plus the website) is totally cryptic. unless one knows what BBS actually stands for. I spent several minutes looking for an explanation
by omani 4y ago
your whole description (plus the website) is totally cryptic. unless one knows what BBS actually stands for. I spent several minutes looking for an explanation on your website and in your HN post. still dont know what it is.
- dgeiser13 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
- omani 4y agoah thanks.
- preciousoo 4y agoYea googling led me to this comment which led me to that wiki link. Very cryptic indeed but maybe that’s the point
- pastage 4y agoWhat did you search for? For me a search for bbs gave three good links, but I knew what it was..
- cykros 4y agoIt's probably actually gotten easier than it was 10 years ago when I got into some telnet and SSH bbs's (using older platforms that are still developed or have had adapted layers to repurpose them). Back then, searching for BBS would get you all sorts of phpbb sites because at least a good contingent of folks were using the term to refer both to the ANSI systems as well as web fora. Now that web fora are mostly replaced by the likes of Reddit, this seems less an issue.
- wkat4242 4y agoHaving been young in the 80s I also wouldn't have realised that this would have needed an explanation :)