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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.
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