Subj : Re: future for fido
To   : Nigel Reed
From : Flavio Bessa
Date : Wed Apr 06 2022 11:10 am

On 01 Apr 2022, Nigel Reed said the following...
 
 NR> There is no future. Not sure about anyone else but most of my callers
 NR> are other sysops or users wanting to relive the good times and call a
 NR> few times and then that's that.
 NR> 
 NR> People, generally, are not bothered about bulletin boards any more, not
 NR> when they can have instant email and instant news from the site of
 NR> their choice. If they want to talk to people, they have facebook, if
 NR> they want to view images, they don't have to download them, they can go
 NR> to Instragram. If they want to real time chat, they have snap chat. 
 NR> 
 NR> Until someone can find a way to make board relevant in the modern
 NR> society, you're doomed to talking to the same people on the same boards
 NR> about the same subjects.

    That might be the case indeed, but I still believe that there is some
    hope in our cause. 

    The problem is that before it was really easy to get users. A simple
    ad at the local newspaper and hundreds of people would dial up to 
    your system.. those times are gone. 

    What I am trying to do is to bring the BBS to some of these 
    retrocomputing events that happen at my city every now and then. 
    With the COVID restrictions lifted, probably we will have one in the
    upcoming months and I plan to participate bringing a system on an 
    old laptop, so people can really see it. 

    Let's see how it goes. 

.... The only place I want data loss is on my credit card!

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