Subj : Local...
To   : Zip
From : Kailef
Date : Thu Sep 19 2013 10:54 am

  Re: Local...
  By: Zip to Matt Munson on Sun Jun 16 2013 07:49 pm

 >   Re: Local...
 >   By: Matt Munson to All on Wed Mar 14 2012 04:59 pm
 > 
 >  > It just sucks that local conversation is not so local these days. I miss 
 >  > spirit of dial up bbsing.
 > Ya, I feel the same way.  When I went to find a BBS to look up and find
 > the old BBS feel, I was like "I have to find a local one... just because,
 > that sort of feels right."
 > .

I know exactly what you mean.  On my BBS, I decided to have no message ¨networks at all - It's a bit of a risky move these days, but it means that the ¨content there is unique to itself.  Because my BBS was born in the early 80's ¨before FIDO was widespread, and we never joined after it became popular, we ¨were always a "local" community.  (I ran Project BBS back in the early 80's, ¨and I now run the reincarnated Sanctum BBS, now called Sanctum II BBS)

I figure that BBS systems will lose and gain popularity as time passes.  ¨Everything seems to come back sooner or later, even disco and bellbottoms. :)

-Kailef
Sanctum II BBS



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