Subj : xbin
To   : Nightfox
From : echicken
Date : Wed Mar 09 2022 21:27:49

  Re: xbin
  By: Nightfox to echicken on Wed Mar 09 2022 11:46:19

 Ni> re-inventing things that have already been done. And if we want better
 Ni> graphics and image display capabilities, RIP and RoboBoard were a couple
 Ni> of standards I had seen in the 90s for providing graphics capabilities for
 Ni> BBSes. 

For "better" graphics you might as well just use the web. RIP is something to use out of nostalgia or curiosity. The main selling point for using a BBS from a terminal today is the simplistic, keyboard-driven, textmode UI.

There's a lot of stuff we *could* do today that would've been super cool 25+ years ago, but now the entire landscape has changed. What would've made these features cool *then* is pretty irrelevant now.

Not that I'm saying let's not try new things. It can be fun to work on this stuff and try different approaches, to see a BBS do some new and surprising thing. Who knows, the right experiment might open up some interesting possibilities.
  
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