---------------------------------------- BBS December 30th, 2021 ---------------------------------------- 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.