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What are the best BBS forums? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by zephyr to c/asklemmy

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The current events with Lemmy makes me feel that people don't realize that "federation" was the default state of the internet (aka web1.0).

What are your favorite BBS forums? My picks are mostly tech/Linux related:

Arch Linux BBS
Linux Mint forums
Linux Questions

What are yours?

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[–] AlolanYoda 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Wait, what do you meant when you say

"federation" was the default state of the internet

Because the main deal with the fediverse is that you can move across and interact with different instances, which are all distinct but interconnected. BBS forums were all separate, with no interconnection between them. There were the various sub-forums inside each of them, but these are more akin to communities on Lemmy or subreddits on that other site, from my point of view.

Did I misunderstand what you meant? Or maybe miss your point?

All of my favorites are dead :(

[–] geranimo2112 4 points 1 year ago

There were BBS forums that were connected. That's what FidoNet did, spreading messages server to server.

Not OP, but to me, the Fediverse is most similar to Usenet. I ran a Usenet server ages ago as an intern at a small company where we exchanged the forums (i.e communities) nightly with a big provider via modem. The technology has certainly changed, but it's the same basic spirit.

There were the big centralized places, like Compuserve and AOL later on that had a more consumer friendly setup. But in that same era, Usenet and the interconnected BBS forums were the Fediverse of the day.

[–] zephyr 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, maybe a better word would be "decentralization", where there's no one service taking over all.

[–] AlolanYoda 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, with that I agree 100%!

[–] ChoadPuncher 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, what? BBS? As in Bulletin Board System? Am I going to be able to play Legend of the Red Dragon again?

[–] scutiger 2 points 1 year ago

You can definitely still play that online somewhere.

[–] Crackhappy 1 points 1 year ago

https://dos.zone/legend-of-the-red-dragon-1992/#:~:text=Legend%20of%20the%20Red%20Dragon%20is%20a%20famous%20and%20most,play%20for%20free%20without%20registration.

[–] V4uban 1 points 1 year ago

https://www.resetera.com/