Subj : Re: Avatar Chat Universal InterBBS chat
To   : Atreyu
From : Hm Derdoc
Date : Fri May 08 2026 12:28:38

  Re: Re: Avatar Chat Universal InterBBS chat
  By: Atreyu to Hm Derdoc on Fri May 08 2026 01:16 am

 > On 06 May 26  11:01:00, Hm Derdoc said the following to All:
 > 
 > HD> from bundled sets — corporate logos, sci-fi heads, eighties stuff, futur originals — or they upload their own .bin over honest-to-god Zmodem, 
 > HD> out in the door's pixel editor. Their avatar travels with their messages everywhere. You get to know people by their faces.
 > 
 > I thought the whole point of a BBS chat system was to chat WITHOUT knowing someone by their face and WITHOUT all the added BS.
 > 
 > Atreyu

It'a 10 x 6 ANSI graphic not a 3D face-scan my dude.  Acting like BBS's have some philosophical "Whole point" as a response to some sort of Web 2.0 technology is
re-writing history.  BBS chat was desinged to be cutting edge, not cutting features.  Many people back then would just logon to BBS to download bitmaps, and
pretending like the whole point of a BBS was to have "low tech" experience might be correct in 2003, but not 1993.  Were people using BBS's in the early 90's
luddites?  Not at all in my view.  Now?  I have a much different impression - which is fine, if people want to keep it retro, that's their prerogrative but to
act like that's the "whole point" of BBS'ing doesn't resonate with me as a valid premise, it's revisionist history - BBS's and their users in their heyday didn't
have a gag reflex to new technology, applications, etc.  they chased it.  

the above is my opinion, and you're welcome to your own we all have our own purposes for our preferences but I respectfully disagree about the "whole point of
BBSes" argument.

cheers,
hm derdoc









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