[GoLUG] Mailing list, long term.

[Kyle Terrien]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:54:52AM +0000, David Billsbrough wrote:
> Hello Steve and all,
> 
> What Steve is looking for is a modern version of the original 80/90's BBS system without wording it that way.
> 
> Think about it ... as as easy and quick to learn as the first group of computer user introduced to desktop computing.
> 
> So just drop the ASCII art and Text 'door' games.
> 
> Just make the 'client' easy to install and instead of talking RS-232 serial but uses TCP/IP and you have .....
> 
> https://www.synchro.net/

That looks really cool!  With the web becoming as opaque as it is, and
with young people purposefully giving up on smart-things, it is
possible that a bunch of independent or federated BBS sites could rise
again.

(I’m a little young to remember the first age of BBSes, but my
understanding is a typical BBS this is just a service provided over
e.g. telnet.  If that’s the case, then it is like the web, except with
a VT100-compatible terminal instead of a gigabyte-sized web browser.
Also, modern terminal emulators offer nice extensions like 256-bit
color and in the case of alacritty (iirc) support for blitting real
images in a terminal session.)

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[*] Kyle Terrien
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