Re:Telnet BBS Guide
by pmoriarty on Sunday May 26, 2019 @02:04PM
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Anyone interested in this should try to "telnet telehack.com"
It's a simulation of arpanet/usenet from around 1985-1990, which includes 25,000 hosts and BBS's, thousands of files from the era, a collection of adventure and IF games, a working BASIC interpreter with a library of programs to run, simulated historical users, and more.
Let me take this opportunity to promote this awesome, free documentary by Jason Scott about BBSs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary. It’s on YouTube. I discovered it in 2005 but only watched it a few years ago. It’s so good. Looking forward to trying BBSs over Telnet.
Re:Telnet BBS Guide
by app4soft on Sunday May 26, 2019 @05:47AM
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There are two[1,2] BBS (in Japanese) related to airplane addons development for YSFlight[0] simulator: first is related to C.K.Packs[3], and second is related to ORANLEED COLLECTION[4]
It is slow, but it works fine. It even detects using xterm with 209x75, with ASCII character set, and allows overriding them if the auto-detection doesn't work (I don't know what other possibilities are supported; maybe PC character set with DOS ANSI.SYS? and presumably also shellinabox, which I have not tried). They support both by telephone and internet; I didn't know they still did that. Also, the menu does not resemble the picture in the web page.
I enjoyed BBSing in my youth and appreciate that BBSes are still around. But two factors that are missing today are 1. BBSes were local to me (reflecting the people in my city) and 2. It was “hard” to find then and connect to them.
Re:Telnet BBS Guide
by cronix on Sunday May 26, 2019 @12:52PM
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Wow...a flashback to the 80s! That US Robotics modem was my pride an joy (same one they have pictured, but came out in the early 90s). My first modem was a 300bps, and 2nd was 2400. This was a huge step up, and was painful waiting for BBS's to upgrade their 9600's to get that sweet speed. IIRC, it took about 7 minutes to download a 1.44MB floppy.
Why? It's history from a time when most people did not have access to the Internet (when there were no commercial ISP's, no fiber or cable to the home that carried digital signals), and BBS's were the only way you communicated electronically with groups of people via a mostly text-based computer...
Re:Telnet BBS Guide
by codr7 on Sunday May 26, 2019 @09:44AM
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It took me several years of exposure to see the point of the internet. I had been running my own BBSes for quite a while by then.
We already had email more or less, at least in ways that mattered. And the experience was non-commercial and personal, with operators putting a lot of time and effort into their quirky online worlds.
Some of it's still around if you go look for it, but I can't shake the feeling that we lost something worth keeping.
It's a simulation of arpanet/usenet from around 1985-1990, which includes 25,000 hosts and BBS's, thousands of files from the era, a collection of adventure and IF games, a working BASIC interpreter with a library of programs to run, simulated historical users, and more.
More information here: http://telehack.com/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telehack
[0] http://ysflight.org
[1] http://mrsandj.sakura.ne.jp/ht/oranleed/cgi-bin/joyfulckp/jo...
[2] http://mrsandj.sakura.ne.jp/ht/oranleed/cgi-bin/joyfuloran/j...
[3] http://mrsandj.sakura.ne.jp/ht/ckp/
[4] http://mrsandj.sakura.ne.jp/ht/oranleed/
Why? It's history from a time when most people did not have access to the Internet (when there were no commercial ISP's, no fiber or cable to the home that carried digital signals), and BBS's were the only way you communicated electronically with groups of people via a mostly text-based computer...
We already had email more or less, at least in ways that mattered. And the experience was non-commercial and personal, with operators putting a lot of time and effort into their quirky online worlds.
Some of it's still around if you go look for it, but I can't shake the feeling that we lost something worth keeping.
And what a great outlet for creativity! Drawing ANSI, modding Renegade, composing MODs for other people to download. It was great.
[0] https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/lists/download-list/