I was reading about the latest poster and why people come back to BBS even if they're not old enough to be nostalgic. I think everyone had good points. To me, there are (at least) two internets; one where the majority hang out, and one like this, call it the back alley or the rural areas, where life is
simpler and the sense of community is greater.


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I'm really glad to be back after so many years. I hope that I can be to some value within the community. Even if it's just asking a question that gets people posting and discussing. I feel much more at home posting here than posting on F-book. Playing around with trying to setup my own BBS even sounds fun. Getting back to my roots is making me feel much better about "social networking" because the modern social network no longer interests me.
-Belzo

I was reading about the latest poster and why people come back to BBS even if they're not old enough to be nostalgic. I think everyone had good
points. To me, there are (at least) two internets; one where the majority hang out, and one like this, call it the back alley or the rural areas, where life is simpler and the sense of community is greater.

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Re: Everyone has good point
By: Vistascan to All on Tue Apr 01 2014 16:06:12

I was reading about the latest poster and why people come back to BBS even if
they're not old enough to be nostalgic. I think everyone had good points. To me, there are (at least) two internets; one where the majority hang out, and one like this, call it the back alley or the rural areas, where life is simpler and the sense of community is greater.

Absolutely. There's the information superhighway, and my preference, the 'information dirt
road' or 'back alley' ;)


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Vistascan wrote to All <=-

I was reading about the latest poster and why people come back to BBS
even if they're not old enough to be nostalgic. I think everyone had
good points. To me, there are (at least) two internets; one where the majority hang out, and one like this, call it the back alley or the
rural areas, where life is simpler and the sense of community is
greater.

Another thing I like is offline capability. As I speak, my car's wheels
are being replaced, and I decided to walk to the mall next door, have lunch, and wait while they do their thing. I took the precaution of downloading
a QWK packet, as for some reason the mall no longer has public Internet, probably because many people now have decent mobile web on their fancy smancy smartphones.

While I would like to read the news, at least I can read through some
messages. Perhaps when I walk back, Discount Tire will have wifi.

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Re: Re: Everyone has good point
By: Belzo to Vistascan on Tue Apr 01 2014 08:08 pm

I'm really glad to be back after so many years. I hope that I can be to
some value within the community. Even if it's just asking a question that gets people posting and discussing. I feel much more at home posting here

please post on the bottom. this is viewed on a lot of bbses and that's the way we prefer to read it,usually.
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Khelair wrote to Vistascan <=-

Absolutely. There's the information superhighway, and my
preference, the 'information dirt road' or 'back alley' ;)

The "Information Superhighway" Highway

There it is again. Some clueless FOOL talking about the "Information Superhighway." They don't know JACK about the net. It's NOTHING like a Superhighway. That's a BAD metaphor.

Yeah, but suppose the metaphor ran in the OTHER direction. Suppose the
HIGHWAYS were like the NET. All right! Severe craziness. A highway HUNDREDS
of lanes wide. Most with potholes. Privately operated bridges and
overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of rent-a-cops on bicycles with
broken whistles. 500 member VIGILANTE POSSES with nuclear weapons. 237 ON
RAMPS at every intersection. NO SIGNS. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out
the window at a passing truck to ask directions. AD HOC traffic laws. Some lanes would VOTE to make use by a single-occupant- vehicle a CAPITAL
OFFENSE on Monday through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes would
just SHOOT you without a trial for talking on a car phone.

AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking BUS with hundreds of EBOLA victims and
a TOILET spewing out on the road behind it. Throwing DEAD WOMBATS and
rotten cabbage at the other cars most of which have been ASSEMBLED AT HOME
from kits. Some are 2.5 horsepower LAWNMOWER ENGINES with a top speed of
nine miles an hour. Others burn NITROGLYCERINE and IDLE at 120.

No license tags. World War II BOMBER NOSE ART instead. Terrifying paintings
of huge teeth or VAMPIRE EAGLES. Bumper mounted MACHINE GUNS. Flip somebody
the finger on this highway and get a WHITE PHOSPHORUS GRENADE up your
tailpipe. Flatbed trucks with ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE BATTERIES to shoot down
the KRUD Traffic Watch helicopter. A little kid on a tricycle with a
squirtgun filled with HYDROCHLORIC ACID.

NO OFFRAMPS.

Now THAT'S the way to run an Interstate Highway system.

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Re: Re: Everyone has good point
By: Poindexter Fortran to Khelair on Thu Apr 03 2014 12:04:00

There it is again. Some clueless FOOL talking about the "Information Superhighway." They don't know JACK about the net. It's NOTHING like a Superhighway. That's a BAD metaphor.

Well obviously. The internet is clearly a series of tubes . . .
and, sometimes, these tubes get clogged . . . *feebly grasps for cane
and hobbles down from the Senate podium*


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Re: Re: Everyone has good point
By: Poindexter Fortran to Khelair on Thu Apr 03 2014 12:04:00

There it is again. Some clueless FOOL talking about the "Information Superhighway." They don't know JACK about the net. It's NOTHING like a Superhighway. That's a BAD metaphor.

Agreed. No more colorful metaphors:
http://youtu.be/hKNw2YmnjgY

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Everyone has good point
By: Poindexter Fortran to Khelair on Thu Apr 03 2014 12:04:00

Yeah, but suppose the metaphor ran in the OTHER direction. Suppose the HIGHWAYS were like the NET. All right! Severe craziness. A highway HUNDREDS of lanes wide. Most with potholes. Privately operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles. 500 member VIGILANTE POSSES with nuclear weapons. 237 ON RAMPS at every intersection. NO SIGNS. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out
the window at a passing truck to ask directions. AD HOC traffic laws. Some lanes would VOTE to make use by a single-occupant- vehicle a CAPITAL
OFFENSE on Monday through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes would just SHOOT you without a trial for talking on a car phone.

Sounds like it would make a good video game ;)

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Re: Re: Everyone has good point
By: bcw142 to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Apr 07 2014 15:43:56

Yeah, but suppose the metaphor ran in the OTHER direction. Suppose the HIGHWAYS were like the NET. All right! Severe craziness. A highway HUNDRE of lanes wide. Most with potholes. Privately operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles. 500 member VIGILANTE POSSES with nuclear weapons. 237 ON RAMPS at every intersection. NO SIGNS. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing truck to ask directions. AD HOC traffic laws. Som lanes would VOTE to make use by a single-occupant- vehicle a CAPITAL OFFENSE on Monday through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes would just SHOOT you without a trial for talking on a car phone.

Sounds like it would make a good video game ;)

Ahahahahah. I must've missed that the first pass I made through the replies the other day. *grin* As far as a good video game? Hell no, that'd make much better reality TV or live from the traffic cams. Shit, I'd run on the basis of making that law if I thought it'd get anywhere. :D


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I'm really glad to be back after so many years. I hope that I can be to
some value within the community. Even if it's just asking a question that gets people posting and discussing. I feel much more at home posting here than posting on F-book. Playing around with trying to setup my own BBS
even sounds fun. Getting back to my roots is making me feel much better about "social networking" because the modern social network no longer interests me. -Belzo

Those are the same reasons why I brought back my original BBS a few years ago. I enjoy the community of BBS users/sysops and it also gets me back to my roots.

- Mark

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Re: Re: Everyone has good point
By: Mark Hofmann to Belzo on Tue May 13 2014 12:34 pm

Those are the same reasons why I brought back my original BBS a few years ago. I enjoy the community of BBS users/sysops and it also gets me back to

This sense of 'forced community' that the old boards had is why I decided to pick a name that implied a DC community. I wanted to at least have something that made it obvious where I was from... Only up a few months but have a few regulars (mostly not DC though. hehe) I tried. :)

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Re: Re: Everyone has good point
By: Mark Hofmann to Belzo on Tue May 13 2014 12:34 pm

my own BBS even sounds fun. Getting back to my roots is making me feel much better about "social networking" because the modern social network no longer interests me. -Belzo

Those are the same reasons why I brought back my original BBS a few years ago. I enjoy the community of BBS users/sysops and it also gets me back to my roots.

social networking has its benefits. just last week i found an old friend that i lost touch with 19 years ago. i even found my father on facebook.
you have to admit, there's a lot of interaction between people.

bbses today are not the same as they were back in the dialup days. the users are not the same and largely , the sysops are not the same.

anything that says today's bbsing is the same or close to how it was, was not there.
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Re: Re: Everyone has good point
By: nolageek to Mark Hofmann on Tue May 13 2014 18:29:33

This sense of 'forced community' that the old boards had is why I decided to pick a name that implied a DC community. I wanted to at least have something that made it obvious where I was from... Only up a few months but have a few regulars (mostly not DC though. hehe) I tried. :)

Nice. :) I don't know if she ever bothered to look for another
BBS community, let alone a local one, but I used to very much value some
of the insight that I got from a friend who worked for one of the
congress critters there. It's amazing how the difference in perspective
that you come across just in everyday discussion puts a different light
on the wordings that are chosen for some of the legislation that goes
through. Wish I knew more people in the DC area. I might have to go
check this out in a bit here. :)


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social networking has its benefits. just last week i found an old friend that i
lost touch with 19 years ago. i even found my father on facebook.
you have to admit, there's a lot of interaction between people.

bbses today are not the same as they were back in the dialup days. the
users are not the same and largely , the sysops are not the same.

anything that says today's bbsing is the same or close to how it was, was not there.

Social media sites in some aspects evolved from the BBS world. It is just a much larger form - and less anonymous.

Both have their advantages and like them both in their own ways.

- Mark

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