It was really neat to see the mish-mash of people all drawn together by geographic areas denoted by telco area codes. But, anyone who wanted to get the the net had to wander through the local BBS first. Direct SLIP and PPP access to the net were rare things still and, before the web took off, Usenet and IRC were some of the best things around. I really miss the tidal-pool effect BBSes had back in the day, when in my area they were the first and best gateways to the Internet. I keep meaning to get a Synchronet BBS up and keep it up, and maybe get a few interested users logging in, if only for the retro-gaming experience for things like Trade Wars, Barrent Realms Elite, Legend of the Red Dragon, Global War, and anything else I can find. And, in fact, I seem to remember seeing a few old-school BBS packages get mutated and gigantified by the dot-com radiation in this way. It would have turned into an Enterprise Application Server or Intranet Knowledge Management Solution- a mini Domino or Lotus Notes.
#SYNCHRONET BBS DOOR GAMES SOFTWARE#
In the 90's, I would have expected software like this to be at the core of a startup company stuffed with superfluous and overpaid code monkeys. It works on Win32 and various Unix platforms. It's got an HTTP daemon with server-side JavaScript.
It's like an old-school BBS, complete with ASCII/ANSI menu screens and everything, but it's been modernized: It offers a slew of Internet protocols integrated with the message bases and file areas. This software deserves so much more attention.
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