Honestly?
I Miss #BBS #BBSing

this honeywell teletype in a briefcase is absolutely hot

https://youtu.be/eeGI1FoySaE?feature=shared&t=145

(begins at 02:45)

Holy shit! @tomjennings, der Gründer von #FidoNet (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet), meinem ersten Sozialmedium (vor 35 Jahren, als die noch #BBS hießen) ist im #Fediverse / auf #Mastodon!
Aber eigentlich war das ja zu erwarten …
Seine FidoNet-Policy: "Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed." wäre auch heute noch eine gute Regel für #Onlinekommunikation.

Per chi vuole ricordare i tempi delle BBS ecco un sito che aiuta:

https://telehack.com/

Ma anche a chi non ha conosciuto quei tempi e vuole vedere come fossero.
Un paio di suggerimenti:
help
cat nome_file
ls

Buon divertimento.

#TELNET #BBS #90'S #MAYTHE4THBEWITHYOU #MAY4TH #STARWARS

If you have not logged into Constructive Chaos today, you are missing out!!
Check out the awesome May 4th Star Wars special today!!

https://conchaos.synchro.net/

Telnet: ConChaos.synchro.net Port 1123

ConChaos is celebrating #MayThe4th in full FORCE all weekend long!

#Telnet on by the #BBS at conchaos.synchro.net and check out some specially prepared #ANSI login events!

OMG I just remembered the BBS craze. Which happened in the decade or so between my childhood computers (Commodore 64), and owning my first PC, so I didn't get to participate. By the time I got back into computers, net connections, email and the web were a thing.

But the BBS is one aspect of the future we need to build. A community-hosted server, offering members a range of services, connected to others via an open digital network.

back in the early 90s my parents brought home an ibm ps/1 with an internal 2400 baud modem. i assumed it was only for sending/receiving faxes.

one day my computer teacher (thank you mr. mckinney!) explained that the modem made my computer capable of dialing out to *other computers* and exchanging data with them. he printed off a five page ream of tractor feed paper titled "The 403 BBS List" and sent me home with it.

i stayed up until 3am that night, dialing every single board on that list using Windows Terminal, creating accounts, and exploring what BBSes were capable of. by the wee hours, i had a new terminal program (Terminate!), knew how to use the z-modem protocol, and had
pirated my first game

one of the little mysteries i came across that night was FILE_ID.DIZ files. every board had them. every zip file had them. they were tiny capsule descriptions of what a program/game was, constrained to 45 cols and 10 rows of ascii. they usually also included some kind of nod to the piracy group that "released" the program.

most BBS software would extract the .DIZ file from the zip, and use that as a file area description for the program, allowing users to understand what they were downloading.

to celebrate this weird little historical curio, today kiki got a FILE_ID.DIZ packed into the zip

in version 1.10 onwards every copy of kiki will now include a FILE_ID.DIZ.

if you haven't heard of kiki yet, check out the project page:
https://tomo-dashi.itch.io/kiki

and if you're new to the kiki community, please post to the #kiki hashtag so we can start building a little webring of kiki instances

Jouer Le Rôle

Just a FYI.. we're doing some work on the #bbs today. I'm very slowly moving files over to the new BBS server and getting ready to retire the 2011 Core Duo machine that's running the gateway now :). But that's not the reason for the post - I've noticed that I've been getting hit a lot by bots and they're tying up the board so I'm banning some new IP ranges. If you can no longer connect, let me know and I'll see if I accidentally banned you.

Backwards BBS (demo) for DOS

https://youtu.be/-iF8GpmwJRw?si=mFflZ63hUsX8gO80

#TELNET #BBS #CHAT #MRC #IRC

Are you joining us for the grAvY trAIn meetup?

Hop on your favorite BBS NOW!! :) Starts at 16:00 EST

https://a-net-online.lol
https://a-net-online.lol/www
https://a-net-online.lol/x

Telnet: SSH:22 RLogin:513
a-net.online:23, mystic-anet.online:23, x.a-net.online:2323

https://erb.pw/y/tgt20250426

The C64 BBS FriaBad offers the daily price per kilo of shrimp when you log out. It's worth calling that board just for that service!

#C64 #Commodore64 #BBS #RetroComputing #Textmode #8bit
#ShrimpPrices #OnlyOnBBS #LogOffBonus

https://cq94.medium.com/get-your-minitels-back-the-computel-videotex-bbs-is-back-1d8c42f1ea17

thank you @ernie for this great writeup on #shareware

I had no idea that the file_id.diz standard was a creation of the ASP (association of shareware professionals). i always just assumed it was a file format created by one of the many #bbs programs of the 90s

https://tedium.co/2016/10/27/shareware-history-legacy/

more here on the file format:
http://artscene.textfiles.com/information/faq-file_id.html

Great day for #MRC! Lots of peeps chatting today. #telnet or #ssh to your favorite #BBS, drop by, and say 'hi!'

If you don't know what MRC is and what to know more, I have a brief write-up on it here: https://conchaos.synchro.net/doors.html?id=mrc

WIP new file browser for RetroBBS (https://github.com/retrocomputacion/retrobbs), shows file extension and size, supports sub-directories. Replaces/supplements the original two-column FileList() function, which is unsuitable for screens larger than 80x25
#retrobbs #commodore64 #msx #bbs #python

Who recognises this wonderful retro Technology, used in Times Long past for retro places where UUCP was the language between machines, port 23 was actively used over POTS twisted pair wires, and the Sysop could read all text you wrote...