BBS (Score: 2, Informative) by cykros@pipedot.org on 2014-07-01 13:39 (#2AC) I'm always amused to see the shock when BBS's are thrown up these days...Synchronet is alive and well, and while FIDONet, Dovenet, etc are a shadow of their former selves, they are still functional. Check out www.synchro.net for more info (afaik, it is the only still actively developed BBS package). Re: BBS (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-07-01 20:18 (#2AH) If this NSA shit keeps up, I'd bet money that something like FIDONet is the future! I still visit the Electronic Chicken BBS once in a while, usually by Telnet, just for fun. Still a great place. Found it via Synchronet's list of BBSes.By the way, one fun thing I did was to visit it on my Psion 5MX (http://therandymon.com/index.php?/171-The-Psion-5-For-Writers-on-the-Move.html - my page about the Psion, not the Chicken session). The Psion had a decent serial terminal app and it was a pretty easy thing to dial up using the modem and access the site via that terminal. Cool nerd self gratification, if nothing else!
Re: BBS (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-07-01 20:18 (#2AH) If this NSA shit keeps up, I'd bet money that something like FIDONet is the future! I still visit the Electronic Chicken BBS once in a while, usually by Telnet, just for fun. Still a great place. Found it via Synchronet's list of BBSes.By the way, one fun thing I did was to visit it on my Psion 5MX (http://therandymon.com/index.php?/171-The-Psion-5-For-Writers-on-the-Move.html - my page about the Psion, not the Chicken session). The Psion had a decent serial terminal app and it was a pretty easy thing to dial up using the modem and access the site via that terminal. Cool nerd self gratification, if nothing else!