Quick question for you guys/gals, I'm looking for BBS user
documentation/tutorials made for day to day BBS users not BBS sysops. I am
looking through textfiles.com at the moment. Textfiles.com has a section on
BBS that looks promising. Is there any other resources I might look at to
learn how to be an efficient BBS user?
I came online in 1997 and was part of the AOL generation.
I never heard about BBSes until I was older and of course, BBSes were notpopular by that time.
Before 1997 I do remember my older brother owning an Altair...
it made me want to use a BBS. It feels like I'm getting in touch with my culture in the same way a youngster today might study history and learn traditional music/food/dance of yesteryear's to better understand and appreciate the culture.
Quick question for you guys/gals, I'm looking for BBS user documentation/tutorials made for day to day BBS users not BBS sysops.
Is there any other resources I might look at to learn how to be an efficientBBS user?
I found Memories in the early '90s and been here since.
With the introduction of Win 95 BBS' dropped off, replaced by the WWW.
I know at one time there were newsgroups with some ISP's but don't know
if they are still around or not. Been a long time since I last accessed
one. (A newsgroup was like a vast BBS and the newsgroups were like the
boards, like this one).
We one had over a dozen BBS' here but they starting falling by the
wayside around 2000. Now there are none locally.
Many people today have no idea what a BBS is/was, etc. Not their
fault, it was just fading out or gone when they started.
Today, Fidonet (and most of its echos) can be accessible via the newsgroupfeature in most email programs.
Take a look at https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
BBSing is a special subculture and is kind of like a black art these days. I fear much of the "youth" are likely to ignore it and pass it by.
Nancy is our resident Luddite, still using DOS. :)
Quoting Zoohouse to All on 10-18-19 12:34 <=-
Quick question for you guys/gals, I'm looking for BBS user documentation/tutorials made for day to day BBS users not BBS sysops.
I am looking through textfiles.com at the moment. Textfiles.com has a section on BBS that looks promising. Is there any other resources I
might look at to learn how to be an efficient BBS user?
Quoting Joe Mackey to Zoohouse on 10-19-19 06:31 <=-
We one had over a dozen BBS' here but they starting falling by the
wayside around 2000. Now there are none locally.
Daryl Stout, a regular here, has one and fill you in more on that.
Nancy is our resident Luddite, still using DOS. :)
I use Doc's Place out of Florida.
When I joined this group there would be literally 100s of messages
a day, right Nancy?
Quick question for you guys/gals, I'm looking for BBS user documentation/tutorials made for day to day BBS users not BBS sysops.
Nancy and Daryl would be able to help there.
Is there any other resources I might look at to learn how to be an efficient BBS user?
Keep the conversations going. Write, reply, etc.
Everyone has memories, be they five years or 75 years.
The only off topic subjects here are modern religion/politics.
(If one wants to discuss the merits of being a Whig vs a Tory,
that's ok, Or Who's Better-- Odin or Zeus? that would be acceptable, I guess.) We also keep it clean here.
I never did keep any tutorials or anything like that, just learned a lot bydoing... and by having good sysops give me good tips along the way...
Quoting August Abolins to Joe Mackey on 10-23-19 20:24 <=-
Nancy is our resident Luddite, still using DOS. :)
According what I found in the 'net:
What does it mean to be called a Luddite?
1. A Luddite is a person who dislikes technology, especially
technological devices that threaten existing jobs or interfere with personal privacy.
2. A Luddite is someone who is incompetent when using new technology.
The word Luddite has an interesting origin in pop culture of the
early 1800's.
Is Luddite an insult?
Today, it's an insult to call someone a Luddite. But that's not fair
to the original Luddites - cloth workers who launched a war against
the machines that were taking their jobs.
Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 10-30-19 06:28 <=-
I never did keep any tutorials or anything like that, just learned a lot
by doing... and by having good sysops give me good tips along the way...
Same here.
I have never run a BBS or anything like that have no idea how it
works. I gave a very vague idea, such as how phone calls are more but
not the technical part just how it works. I just know when I dial a number the other persons phone rings.
Or I load my browser/e-mail and use it, but not all the things that
happen between here and there.
Or how electricity gets to my apartment. When I flip on a light
they came on, not how it got from the plant to my place.
I really liked Bluewave in the days of dial up (along with DOS and
early Windows) when being charged "time and mileage". I could read off line and later post. With broadband so much is done live now.
Except for us holdouts (Luddites, even, if you wish [g]) that still
download bbs messages and even our email... Of course, as that also
includes Richard who is a Wizard, maybe Luddite doesn't really apply
here... ;)
Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 11-04-19 07:13 <=-
Except for us holdouts (Luddites, even, if you wish [g]) that still
download bbs messages and even our email... Of course, as that also
includes Richard who is a Wizard, maybe Luddite doesn't really apply
here... ;)
Maybe more of a mixed marriage? :)
No.... In some ways, he can be as much of a Luddite (in the good senses
of the word) or more, than I am.... He does do some stuff online, but
prefers to do most of it offline... As I said, he refuses to have a
cell phone... and though he is quite a Wizard with computer stuff, he
uses DOS and Linux mostly... he has a Windows machine as well, for the
times that one has to use that, for certain websites... but he always downloads his email to read and answer offline, rather than do it
online... finds it much safer that way.... And he also uses a text
browser wherever possible on the web.... :)
And he also uses a text browser wherever possible on the web.... :)
Quoting Mike Powell to Nancy Backus on 11-10-19 09:27 <=-
No.... In some ways, he can be as much of a Luddite (in the good senses
of the word) or more, than I am.... He does do some stuff online, but prefers to do most of it offline... As I said, he refuses to have a
cell phone... and though he is quite a Wizard with computer stuff, he
uses DOS and Linux mostly... he has a Windows machine as well, for the
times that one has to use that, for certain websites... but he always downloads his email to read and answer offline, rather than do it
online... finds it much safer that way.... And he also uses a text
browser wherever possible on the web.... :)
That sounds like me, except I do have a cell phone. I am considering going back to the older style flip phone should my current (not so)
smart phone ever stops working. I have had it over 5 years now, so it
is more durable than I would have assumed when I got it.
Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 11-11-19 08:19 <=-
And he also uses a text browser wherever possible on the web.... :)
I didn't know they were still around.
I recall when Windows something, a very early one, long before 95,
came out and people on the net were complaining about how now the great unwashed were invading their domain since the users didn't need to know DOS, etc. That the simple minded only needed
I was still using DOS then.
DOS, etc. That the simple minded only neededunwashed were invading their domain since the users didn't need to know
(to point and click....?)
I was still using DOS then.
And I still am now.... <G> I find that point and click stuff more
taxing than using command line... :)
Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 11-21-19 06:59 <=-
unwashed were invading their domain since the users didn't need to(to point and click....?)
know DOS, etc. That the simple minded only needed
You're getting good at reading my cut offs. :)
I was still using DOS then.And I still am now.... <G> I find that point and click stuff more
taxing than using command line... :)
I'm just one of the great unwashed masses now, since I like point
and click. :)
And I still am now.... <G> I find that point and click stuff more
taxing than using command line... :)
I'm just one of the great unwashed masses now, since I like point
and click. :)
Guess so... but most of those earlier complainers probably have joined
the point and click masses themselves, now... ;)
Quoting August Abolins to Nancy Backus on 11-28-19 00:42 <=-
** 27.11.19 - 21:34, NANCY BACKUS wrote to JOE MACKEY:
And I still am now.... <G> I find that point and click stuff more
taxing than using command line... :)
I'm just one of the great unwashed masses now, since I like point
and click. :)
Guess so... but most of those earlier complainers probably have joined
the point and click masses themselves, now... ;)
Using the keyboard isn't that much different from "point-n-click". We have to point to specific keys, and then click. LOL.
And.. the arrow keys are yet another way to "point" and go where we
need to be.
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