Re: Conference Traffic

> Re: Conference Traffic
>
> > I just discovered this message thingy
>
> Back in the dial-up days, the message bases were visited as much as the file
> areas or doors. Shows how much things have changed.

yeah, I remember when Vnet had well over a 1000 independant systems.  It was
quite amazing for its time.

On another note, I believe if the BBS internetworking model was updated to use
modern technology, it would become a direct competitor and surpas the current
internet model of internetworking.  Just for the simple fact that the BBS model
does not use search engines or care for net neutrality. Also, BBS's would
virtually do away with mass mail systems like yahoo and hotmail if there were
"mini-bbs" systems that could be set up in 10 minutes that had all basic
computer services wrapped up into one program.

In a sense, I believe every single computer in every single house should be
running a type of "BBS" which hosts their web page "instead of myspace" e-mail
"instead of yahoo", files "instead of sourceforge", and e-commerce software
"instead of tucows"  If a BBS was designed right, with the right philosophical
theory, it could completely change the rules of the internet in favor of the
individual.

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