Subj : BBS GUI/API
To   : All
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Aug 02 2020 12:07 am

Hello All!

I happened to come across this recently:

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The  F I D O N E W S      Volume 19, Number 42             21 Oct 2002

6.      GETTING FIDONET TECHNICAL  ................................ 13
        Implementing a common standard for a higher BBS interfa  .. 13

[snip]

     Implementing a common standard for a higher BBS interface layer
                             Petko Bossakov, 2:535/1

     I have to start with this: Fidonet is in a decline. Nobody doubts
     that, and it has been repeated many times. I would like to reflect on
     a very basic reason for this.

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It's an interesting article.  Were there any working examples of building  
the "Univeral BBS GUI" ?  Does anyone remember and further chatter about  
the matter?

Perhaps Petko did not envision the development of "Apps" a few years later  
on smartphones.  But it is interesting that he recognized a need from the  
user POV for a simple common way to access the myriad of scattered BBSes
everywhere, especially if BBSing was to attract more users.  This is not  
unlike what some of us here have mentioned would be useful from the pov of  
a user and their tablet/smartphone.


  ../|ug

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