/retro/ - Y2K

>>1160 (OP) 
>It would be cool to have an official /retro/ BBS
Wouldn't that just be a regular textboard, except it's displayed in the terminal/command line?

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>>1167
no, the connection is completely different telnet is a direct connection which opens a tcp shell on the server, with http you dont create a shell you send requests and the server sends responses (ie. html pages that are rendered client side) 

also nice non standard character set
>>1167

>>1177
Might want to see if your client or terminal can decode CP437, I imagine that's what conventional BBSes from back in the day used.

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>>1160 (OP) 
I made a quick emulator out of  curiosity , not a real bbs but just the site parsed into the console, just a lazy proof of concept 
played around with trying to get images to render as ascii art but it all looked like shit, also no posting because captcha is a jpeg, I was going to make it download it and open it outside the terminal with system calls, but  thats gay and unaesthetic so I didnt bother, gotta be tty bro

link [ https://www64.zippyshare.com/v/aLVfWgyv/file.html ]
also works for windows niggers

>>1212
>inb4 press 'h' for instructions

>>1212
>pre-compiled, binary blob.
No thanks, fucking glownigger. Who do you think we are? Post the source and we can take things from there, kthxbye.

https://old.reddit.com/r/bbs/

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>>1160 (OP) 
>>1160 (OP) 
saw somebody posting some other BBS systems on cuckchan's /g/.  No idea if they're very active but thought I'd add to the list.

Also, it's not truly retro, but you could always checkout out Analog City.  It's a message board somebody implemented in shell that is available over SSH.

ssh lowlife@45.79.250.220 password: hightech

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http://archives.thebbs.org/
https://www.goto10.fr/
https://www.ansilove.org/bbs.html
https://www.ansilove.org/examples.html

>>2848
There is really a rabbit hole to dig regarding the BBS world. I wish I was a grown man during this time to live this first steps of the man on the wired.
Here is a documentary about the BBS era from Jason Scott
http://textfiles.com/jason/.
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
https://archive.org/details/bbsdocumentary/BBSDocumentaryDisc1.cdr

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Wish I saved more Japanese BBS ads before that one uploader nuked their account. It was a very active scene that produced a lot of art and music, but not much of it has been publicly preserved compared to the works of the European and American BBS scene.

Also find it kinda interesting that telnet BBSes are still very active in Taiwan, however its culture seems to more resemble 2ch than traditional BBSes.

>>2851
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary
>BBS: The Documentary (commonly referred to as BBS Documentary) is a 3-disc, 8-episode documentary about the subculture born from the creation of the bulletin board system (BBS) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com.
> Wired called it "a five-and-a-half-hour paean to the era when computers were named Stacy and Lisa, and tech loyalists fought bitter battles over the superiority of Ataris to Amigas".
Not that I care about Wired, but a documentary this long made by people who are actually part of the subculture should be at least informative, so I might as well bump this thread.

Also, if you want to run a BBS you should also consider using existing BBS software:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BBS_software

>>5211
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_(BBS_software)
>Waffle is a bulletin-board system created by Tom Dell for the Dark Side of the Moon BBS which ran under DOS and later UNIX. The software was unique among DOS BBS software in many ways, including the fact that all of the configuration files were in readable text files, and that it fully supported Usenet and UUCP on the DOS platform.
>A Usenet news group named comp.bbs.waffle was created for discussion of the Waffle BBS System.
>Waffle was first released in 1989.[1] The last version seems to be v1.65.[2] There was a beta version of 1.66 on the main site, but it was never released.
>It was possible to link Waffle (under DOS) to Fidonet and WWIV using external gateway utilities. 
This definitely sounds interesting, but there is surprisingly little info available. Still, there is the source code for a UNIX version here:
https://archive.org/details/unix-waffle-1.64-src

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>>2848
> goto10.fr (Minitel)
This looks so much nicer and easier to use than the shitty sncf.fr website that usually never works right with any of my web browsers. ;_;
The moderm web a shit!

>>5212
Although if you want a BBS with usenet integration then there is at least one still maintained alternative:
https://www.synchro.net/
https://wiki.synchro.net/module:newslink?s[]=nntp

https://synchro.net/sbbslist.html
I've tried to visit a few of these, and it seems like that either ssh doesn't work, or I just can't figure out what am I supposed to do. Telnet connections are perfectly fine, but if I try to enter with ssh followed by the domain of the bbs, then it just tries to log in as my Linux user. And I can't figure out if I need to add a flag to ssh or an user before the domain or something else.