#bulletin board system

[nickyflowers]

come check out my bulletin board system!! the message boards are popping off, people are sharing art in the file area, it's very chill and nice. its a little place that i'm hoping will be a comfortable community

***(just make sure you have a telnet terminal that can show ANSI graphics. i recommend SyncTerm, NetRunner, or possibly MuffinTerm as BBS specific terminals)

[gmanmedias]

Random genders from my hoard: bulletboldinet

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[insurguitor]

guess who just discovered bbs for the first time :]

[soapdispensersalesman]

POV: You have a problem but the only Google results are unsolved forum threads from twenty years ago

[darkhawk1126]

(Fires up Telegard/Renegade BBS software)

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: AdeptApril is the System Operator of the Storm Bulletin Board System (pictured above, on a wet day), and has drawn this #ANSIart screen in celebration of International SysOps' Day. Please leave your appreciation in the oneliners, not the page button!

[symbologic]

As someone who studied journalism and has also worked in toxic environments that fed off of information hoarding, I used to believe that information sharing was inherently "good". Because it promotes transparency! And transparency challenges unspoken norms and combats white supremacy culture, which are both things that are very important to me

But the more time I spend on social media, the more I realize that the concept of a digital town square was a mistake. We as humans need smaller communities organized around common interests and shared causes, rather than a single place for everything to exist all at once

Nowadays, I'm starting to think "intentionality" is the real MVP in navigating online and life in general. Not because it's inherently good or bad, but because it means we're 100% aware of what we're doing, who we're saying stuff to, and why we're doing it.

It would be so much more productive and manageable than everyone hurling a million + 1 jarringly disparate things at each other simply because we're in an online ecosystem that actively rewards it

[vintage-tech]

*snickers in two-node RBBS and multiple WWIV boards*

"what social media did you use before Tumblr?"

Friend, I came here from Google+

[subjectsix]

tumblr's about to force me to finally make my neocities site smh

[dilfkuza]

Nishida's willingness to go along with the Zombie event is honestly so funny. i can just imagine Majima lying across the couch in the family office kicking his feet as he plans it out like "Kiryu-chan will never expect this!" and Nishida is just sitting there like. okay yeah sure why not. this might as well happen today. drag the whole family into your mating ritual why don't you.

[nickyflowers]

literally come join me in the silly world of bulletin board systems. let's all form a new message network by linking up our boards. we can build a new web out of old parts. it'll be fun i swear 😭

[myrmeen]

I am pre-internet.

(By trope-specific i mean for example all the slash fics hosting websites, or the nsfw-only ones, etc)

[trendynewsnow]

Ward Christensen: The Innovator Behind the First Online Bulletin Board System

Ward Christensen: Pioneer of Online Bulletin Boards Ward Christensen, a renowned computer scientist credited with the creation of the first online bulletin board system, passed away on October 11 at his residence in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. He was 78 years old. His brother, Donald, reported that the cause of death was a heart attack. In the summer of 1975, while serving as an engineer at an IBM…

[jays-world-of-wonder]

Prompts #35 - Max Modem: Dial-Up Defender of the Digital Frontier (serious)

Do you remember life before the internet? You know, some folks these days talk about a mythical time before the internet existed. Like, they had to, I dunno, read books or something? Sounds barbaric, right? But me, Max Modem? I remember the dawn of the digital age, back when the internet was a screeching beast tamed only by the bravest of keyboard warriors. Yep, I’m talking dial-up days, folks.…

[covington-shenanigans]

Eagle's Nest BBS, a telnet-only (not dial-up) bulletin board system founded in 1992 by a bunch of nerds

What was your obscure chatroom/forum that you used before social media? Don’t say Gaia Online or Club Penguin. I’m talking obscure.

[losergendered]

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Clashgender (link): A gender/umbrella term for genders related to The Clash in any way

Bulletboldinet (link): a gender related to bulletin board systems