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[#] Tue Apr 11 2023 22:49:22 EDT from papa

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I wonder why this BBS doesn't have a room dedicated to BBS systems and software.

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The Wikipedia page on Jeffrey Prothero/Cnybe tu Taren, the programmer of the original version of Citadel, states that Citadel was "arguably the first virtual world system" ([citation needed]). Citadel, then and now, is quite different from what we think of as a virtual world, but do you think that comment is based on Citadel message boards being presented as rooms that users move through to read and write messages relevant to the current room's topic, and chat with other users currently accessing the same room?




[#] Wed Apr 12 2023 09:30:21 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Cynbe had said at one point that Citadel was inspired by a Dungeons & Dragons like program that he found on some old multiuser host he was on. It was a typical explore-the-dungeon type game, except it had a feature where you could write messages on the walls and other users could read them. People liked this feature and it became the focus, so he wrote BBS software that centered around that concept.

This means his claim of being "first" is obviously an exaggeration, since he based it on something else, even though that something else is long forgotten.
And it would be another six years before Citadel was rewritten on unix as a multiuser experience.

[#] Wed Apr 12 2023 10:08:16 EDT from Nurb432

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Well, if you want one, create one.. :)

Tue Apr 11 2023 10:49:22 PM EDT from papa

I wonder why this BBS doesn't have a room dedicated to BBS systems and software.

 



[#] Wed Apr 12 2023 10:57:40 EDT from papa

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I just found the button, but I think I'll get to know Uncensored a little better before I start changing the topology. ;)

Wed Apr 12 2023 10:08:16 EDTfrom Nurb432

Well, if you want one, create one.. :)

 



[#] Thu Apr 13 2023 22:41:26 EDT from papa

Subject: R.I.P. Grex.org

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Grex.org, the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based on-line community established in 1991, is shutting down for the last time on April 15, 2023.

It was quite a big deal in its day. A lot of fine software hacks pulled-off and a lot interesting people passed through.

Sad to see another avatar of the kinder and gentler, if more naive, Internet of the past get redirected to /dev/null.

 



[#] Fri Apr 14 2023 18:10:51 EDT from Nurb432

Subject: Re: R.I.P. Grex.org

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as us old timers die off.. so does our legacy



[#] Fri Apr 14 2023 18:16:06 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Speaking of old, I found out today that IBM still exists! (I'm in the process of writing up a blog article about how futile that is.)

[#] Sat Apr 22 2023 08:37:55 EDT from nonservator

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I think I had a grex.org account. I know I had one on Cleveland Freenet.



[#] Tue May 02 2023 17:45:36 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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I have my "system alert" sound set to the 1 KHz beep from the Apple II. Because sometimes all you need is a beep. Not a boop, not a blip, not a plunk or a drip or a bark.

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