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Have you had experience with Bulletin board systems? What was is? Maybe we should run our BBS? Is it enough /cyb/ so we could start this trend again? Or lainchan already have it and I don't know?

>>11565 would learn how to access BBS's just to use this thing, make it happen

I used to post on SDF's bbs like program before. It's just a CLI message board. I don't see it being as cyb as a regular web message board.

I'm too young to have ever been a part of the BBS days; however, I'm fascinated by them. There's just some kind of mystique to it that you don't get anymore. Please tell me there's some still alive and active somewhere?

>>11573 Connecting to bbs is via telnet. I guess that on windows you can use putty, and on Linux you use only 'telnet' command which goes like this: "telnet lainchan.org". >>11606 Unfortunately I'm also too young and didn't have chance to be on active bss. Most of them today are dead, but still accesible. You just need to google it.

Thank you for this thread, OP. I wanted to get into BBS surfing as well, but I hit a couple of dead ones (like, couldn't even connect) and gave up. Most of BBSes are probably dead now, but there must be some somewhat active ones. If you're into BBSes, I also suggest you play a game called Digital: A Love Story. It can be downloaded for free here: http://scoutshonour.com/digital/

>>11647 Whoa, thanks for the game. Recently, I've discovered game called TIS-100. I guess I will spend a lot of time playing games now, which i don't usually do.

>>11565 i hung out on TFP (the floating pancreas) telnet BBS when i was younger w/ the S.I.N crew. i miss those days. i'm still into ascii/ansi art b/c of it. i'd be down to make a new one.

http://wwwtxt.org/tagged/txt

Would anyone be interest in a lainchan bitmessage group? I'd be willing to set one up.

>>11717 i would try it.

I caught an interest in them a while back. Went looking around for living ones and didn't find much. Sad. >>11717 That would be pretty cool.

What I would really be interested in is a BBS style interface for lainchan as-is over ssh. Similar to browsing this site with a text browser like links, but designed to look good in a terminal. So basically this site without images, over ssh instead of telnet

>>11736 boingo that way i could use a hmd to go on lainchan

>>11717 Yes.

>>11717 I'm interested too. But isn't it similar to Retroshare? I still prefer bss-like thing.

>>11736 On the same note, I would like to make a terminal browser where the site looks like a ncurses program. Like mapping some css to ncurses properties, I don't know.

>>11753 Is it really possible?

>>11755 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m http://www.howtogeek.com/103574/how-to-browse-from-the-linux-terminal-with-w3m/

>>11736 Screwing around with browsing Lainchan text only and this is what I've got using a couple of minutes and piping between far too many programs then to less in the end

>>11835 Although it would be inhumanly easy to do in a language other than bash, honestly

>>11835 >>11837 Yeah, I'm going to put together a curses program in python for it, then maybe I'll port it to C++ if I have the motivation.

>>11606 >>11634 >>11647 Doing it like a boss on a c64! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCicz04EwwQ

>>11944 That is beautiful.

>>11944 holy crap it's SO SLOW but yeah interesting video!

>>11753 >>11755 I think you could also hack firefox so that it patches the css and sends specific requests like "no JS please", "I'm in text-only mode", etc.

>>12147 and then we can make a js extension to use keyboard shortcuts and wam bam we got bbs for lainchan

>>11944 >cost to run for 4 years >$10,000 Holy soykaf . >>11565 Judging by the cost cited by the video here >>11944 for running one over a phone line, you might want to have people use telnet to connect to it.

>>11565 >>11755 Here's one for reddit: https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv

I once browsed a Taiwanese BBS called PTT (apparently BBSs are still popular there for some reason, kind of like how fax is still used in Japan i guess) via an in-browser client and once I tried to use one that has been around since the 80s/90s and was talked about on some podcast I was linked to but I couldn't really figure out what I was even doing I don't even know if BBSs were ever even popular in the UK >>11647 Digital: A Love Story is great, I'd also recommend it's sort-of-sequels Don't take it personally babe and Analogue: A Hate Story if you enjoyed it

>>12510 oops, left my sage on

>>12510 I've already beaten Analogue, was interesting. Can't finish Hate Plus, because I'd have to bake a cake. :"D

>>12517 Oops, accidentally left my name on. I'm not the OP of this thread. :^(

>>11565 >>11606 http://www.telnetbbsguide.com

Maybe it could be some special prepared website which would allow connections with links/w3m browser-like only. I'm not into interwebz but I think it's possible, isn't it? Of course there will be that one person which would avoid this protection, eh. The question is: would be possible to implement things like games on this website and would graphics be compatible with our different terminals? I think that BBS through telnet would be better that website.

>>12510 I had no idea Analogue was related to Digital. I'll actually have to check it out now.

>>11717 I would definitely try it.

>>11835 good work anon. >>11753 That sounds like an autism nightmare. I would like to see it though

there was a /cyber/ bbs about a year ago but it shut down out of nowhere in late December and I never heard any more about it

>>11565 Look up u413. It was a shotgun.js implementation of a browser BBS. It was shway as fuark, but the guy who ran it was a total fag. TheWiz's gibson BBS was a superior site by far, but oh well. soykaf died, what do you expect?

>>11565 Was browsing one few years ago, I think the demogroup TiTAN had a pretty nice one few years go. Could not find it, and not sure if it was titan. Here: http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ I found a list for you OP, i tried one and used the client PCManX 1.2 for fedora. The best ones are filled with ASCii, good luck happy browsing :) / I am also too young for this stuff, but active in the demoscene few years ago producing music for a group.

Did anyone here set up an account on any BBS? There are a lot of BBSes it seems but I just can't decide on any. I would want to use a somewhat active one...

Fullchan /tech/ had a bbs a while back. It was ok, but even on a chan that size it only got light use. On a related note, check out telehack. It's a really fun game. http://telehack.com/