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BBS | |
December 30th, 2021 | |
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I installed WWIV on one of my VMs. I walked through all the set up | |
and got it all configured out of some spark of nostalgia. Then | |
when it was done and ready to start adding content I decided I had | |
no content I wanted to share in a BBS. I have enough channels for | |
my creative outputs already. Too many, really. | |
So I deleted it. | |
It was too easy to conflate the installation and configuration of | |
a BBS as "having a BBS" in my head. I wanted to recapture the | |
feeling of the BBS days and the setup process faked its way into | |
my day masquarading as a solution. The BBS experience was one of | |
community, though, and of reaching out for a bit of nerdy contact | |
that pierced a veil of separatation. | |
That veil doesn't exist anymore. The internet killed it. And so | |
what is left to penetrate? I already have contact with you here. | |
Do I add door games to this little corner of the internet and | |
entice you with FIDONet access? Maybe I dust off Phrack archives | |
or ANSi art galleries? With a lot of work I could decorate my | |
space like the ones of my youth and possibly entice visitors for | |
a drive-by of the museum I'd created, but that's still a pale | |
approximation. |