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 No.11565

Have you had experience with Bulletin board systems? What was is? Maybe we should run our BBS? Is it enough /cyb/ so we could start this trend again? Or lainchan already have it and I don't know?
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 No.11573

>>11565
would learn how to access BBS's just to use this thing, make it happen

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 No.11574

I used to post on SDF's bbs like program before. It's just a CLI message board. I don't see it being as cyb as a regular web message board.

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 No.11606

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I'm too young to have ever been a part of the BBS days; however, I'm fascinated by them. There's just some kind of mystique to it that you don't get anymore.

Please tell me there's some still alive and active somewhere?

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 No.11634

>>11573
Connecting to bbs is via telnet. I guess that on windows you can use putty, and on Linux you use only 'telnet' command which goes like this: "telnet lainchan.org".
>>11606
Unfortunately I'm also too young and didn't have chance to be on active bss. Most of them today are dead, but still accesible. You just need to google it.

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 No.11647

Thank you for this thread, OP.

I wanted to get into BBS surfing as well, but I hit a couple of dead ones (like, couldn't even connect) and gave up.

Most of BBSes are probably dead now, but there must be some somewhat active ones.

If you're into BBSes, I also suggest you play a game called Digital: A Love Story. It can be downloaded for free here: http://scoutshonour.com/digital/

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 No.11705

>>11647
Whoa, thanks for the game. Recently, I've discovered game called TIS-100. I guess I will spend a lot of time playing games now, which i don't usually do.

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 No.11710

>>11565
i hung out on TFP (the floating pancreas) telnet BBS when i was younger w/ the S.I.N crew. i miss those days. i'm still into ascii/ansi art b/c of it. i'd be down to make a new one.

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 No.11716

http://wwwtxt.org/tagged/txt

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 No.11717

Would anyone be interest in a lainchan bitmessage group? I'd be willing to set one up.

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 No.11733

>>11717
i would try it.

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 No.11734

I caught an interest in them a while back. Went looking around for living ones and didn't find much. Sad.

>>11717
That would be pretty cool.

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 No.11736

What I would really be interested in is a BBS style interface for lainchan as-is over ssh. Similar to browsing this site with a text browser like links, but designed to look good in a terminal. So basically this site without images, over ssh instead of telnet

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 No.11738

>>11736
boingo that way i could use a hmd to go on lainchan

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 No.11741

>>11717
Yes.

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 No.11752

>>11717
I'm interested too. But isn't it similar to Retroshare? I still prefer bss-like thing.

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 No.11753

>>11736
On the same note, I would like to make a terminal browser where the site looks like a ncurses program. Like mapping some css to ncurses properties, I don't know.

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 No.11755

>>11753
Is it really possible?


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 No.11835

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>>11736
Screwing around with browsing Lainchan text only and this is what I've got using a couple of minutes and piping between far too many programs then to less in the end

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 No.11837

>>11835
Although it would be inhumanly easy to do in a language other than bash, honestly

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 No.11838

>>11835
>>11837
Yeah, I'm going to put together a curses program in python for it, then maybe I'll port it to C++ if I have the motivation.

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 No.11944

>>11606
>>11634
>>11647
Doing it like a boss on a c64!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCicz04EwwQ

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 No.12127

>>11944
That is beautiful.

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 No.12132

>>11944
holy crap it's SO SLOW

but yeah interesting video!

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 No.12147

>>11753
>>11755
I think you could also hack firefox so that it patches the css and sends specific requests like "no JS please", "I'm in text-only mode", etc.

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 No.12148

>>12147
and then we can make a js extension to use keyboard shortcuts and wam bam we got bbs for lainchan

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 No.12500

>>11944
>cost to run for 4 years
>$10,000
Holy soykaf .

>>11565
Judging by the cost cited by the video here >>11944 for running one over a phone line, you might want to have people use telnet to connect to it.

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 No.12509

>>11565
>>11755
Here's one for reddit:

https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv

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 No.12510

I once browsed a Taiwanese BBS called PTT (apparently BBSs are still popular there for some reason, kind of like how fax is still used in Japan i guess) via an in-browser client and once I tried to use one that has been around since the 80s/90s and was talked about on some podcast I was linked to but I couldn't really figure out what I was even doing

I don't even know if BBSs were ever even popular in the UK

>>11647
Digital: A Love Story is great, I'd also recommend it's sort-of-sequels Don't take it personally babe and Analogue: A Hate Story if you enjoyed it

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 No.12511

>>12510
oops, left my sage on

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 No.12517

>>12510
I've already beaten Analogue, was interesting. Can't finish Hate Plus, because I'd have to bake a cake. :"D

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 No.12518

>>12517
Oops, accidentally left my name on. I'm not the OP of this thread. :^(

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 No.12545

>>11565
>>11606

http://www.telnetbbsguide.com

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 No.12546

Maybe it could be some special prepared website which would allow connections with links/w3m browser-like only. I'm not into interwebz but I think it's possible, isn't it? Of course there will be that one person which would avoid this protection, eh.
The question is: would be possible to implement things like games on this website and would graphics be compatible with our different terminals?
I think that BBS through telnet would be better that website.

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 No.13193

>>12510
I had no idea Analogue was related to Digital.
I'll actually have to check it out now.

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 No.14069

>>11717
I would definitely try it.

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 No.14099

>>11835
good work anon.

>>11753
That sounds like an autism nightmare. I would like to see it though

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 No.14102

there was a /cyber/ bbs about a year ago but it shut down out of nowhere in late December and I never heard any more about it

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 No.14295

>>11565
Look up u413. It was a shotgun.js implementation of a browser BBS. It was shway as fuark, but the guy who ran it was a total fag. TheWiz's gibson BBS was a superior site by far, but oh well. soykaf died, what do you expect?

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 No.14351

>>11565
Was browsing one few years ago, I think the demogroup TiTAN had a pretty nice one few years go. Could not find it, and not sure if it was titan.

Here: http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

I found a list for you OP, i tried one and used the client PCManX 1.2 for fedora.

The best ones are filled with ASCii, good luck happy browsing :)

/ I am also too young for this stuff, but active in the demoscene few years ago producing music for a group.

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 No.14395

Did anyone here set up an account on any BBS? There are a lot of BBSes it seems but I just can't decide on any. I would want to use a somewhat active one...

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 No.14547

Fullchan /tech/ had a bbs a while back. It was ok, but even on a chan that size it only got light use.

On a related note, check out telehack. It's a really fun game.

http://telehack.com/


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