Re: [cobalt-users] (OT) Posting to the list In General

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Charles Williams (CEO)" <hosting.mailing.list.account@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Steve,
>
> then you may remember some of these.
>
> Wildcat
> Litehouse
> PCBoard
> Telix
> Trancer
> etc...

Thanks for the list, Charles!  It has been so long since I even thought
about it, that I couldn't even remember what software we ran.  Wildcat was
the BBS software that I ran for the bulk of the time (life of my BBS was
1991-1992).  There were actually 4 other BBS that linked together with mine
and dialed each other up round-robin late at night and passed on messages
from message boards on each BBS so that by the time the process was done all
5 BBS were populated with messages from all 5 BBS.  Today something like
that's no big deal with XML documents and cron jobs, but 10 years ago what
we did was bleeding edge.  Now if I could just remember the names of the
mutiplayer games we ran.  IIRC, they all limited you to a fixed number of
turns per day, and though that was annoying we lived with it.  Today, if you
visit a website with hundreds of concurrent users and you can't access it
for 2 minutes it's a travesty.  Funny how things change.  :-)

> I've still got an OLD archive from my BBS that has at least 10 differant
BBS
> solutions.  Man those were the days. hehe.

It's nice to reflect on the old days - reall puts things in perspective.

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Steve Werby
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