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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:29:27 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 6 | Last edited on Thursday, September 18, 2003 7:31:04 pm | by MarcelVanDeSteeg | Revert |
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-A
bulletin board (or
BBS) was
a piece of software that would run
on someones
modem-connected computer that you could
dial up and connect to, participate in message discussions, download files, email
other users, play online ("door") games, etc
. These all predate
the Internet by several years
.
+The
bulletin board originally started out as strips of paper posted up in the supermaket. Later, when computers became more widespread at home, the bulletin board system
([
BBS]
) took off -
a piece of software that ran
on someone's
modem-connected computer,
that you would
dial up and connect to. When online
, you could
participate in message discussions, download files, e-mail
other users, play online ("door") games, and engaged in real time chat with the SysOp, or on really flash BBSes with multiple phone lines, other members connected at the same time
. BBSes were the primary precursor to the ZModem protocol (see also: Punter Protocol), ~ZedZap etc (see FidoNet), a unified modern global email standard, and contributed countless R&D towards modern UseNet and
the InterNet as we know it today
.
-Lots of people involved with Linux (and the WaikatoLinuxUsersGroup) are old BBS people?
+Lots of people involved with Linux (and the WaikatoLinuxUsersGroup) are old BBS people. Here are some people involved with WLUG started out in the [HamiltonBulletinBoardScene].
-OliverJones
(sysop of TheDigitalDream
), PerryLorier, DanielLawson, JonPurvis,
KyleCarter, MattCairns, MarcelVanDeSteeg, CraigBox
(sysop of [Toontown]
), GreigMcGill
(sysop of EchoesBbs
),
PaulMacDonald (Wellington scene), zcat
(1),
sysop of Cherrybomb
(and later Cherrybomb Voicemail
),
AndrewThrift (sysop of Euphoria BBS(
Whakatane)
, The Realm Of the Skull(
Gisborne),
ex maintainer of the New Zealand BBS List) are all BBS old timers
, who else is?
+* CraigBox
(sysop of [Toontown]
)
+* RaymondBurgess (sysop of Blender and Ritual Idea)
+* MattCairns
+*
KyleCarter
+* OliverJones
(sysop of TheDigitalDream
)
+* DanielLawson
+* PerryLorier
(co-
sysop of TheDigitalDream and Toontown
)
+*
PaulMacDonald (Wellington scene)
+* IanMcDonald
(sysop of Kononia)
+* GreigMcGill
(sysop of EchoesBbs
)
+* JonPurvis
+*
AndrewThrift (sysop of Euphoria BBS [
Whakatane]
, The Realm Of the Skull [
Gisborne] and
ex maintainer of the New Zealand BBS List)
+* MarcelVanDeSteeg
+* zcat(1)
, sysop of Cherrybomb (and later Cherrybomb Voicemail)
-See [Hamilton BBS] Scene
.
+Feel free to add your name to the list
.
