from bundled sets — corporate logos, sci-fi heads, eighties stuff, futur originals — or they upload their own .bin over honest-to-god Zmodem, or t sketch one out in the door's pixel editor. Their avatar travels with their messages everywhere. You get to know people by their faces.
knowing someone by their face and WITHOUT all the added BS.
And that chat still exists, with MRC.
Not sure if there's a strong reason for something else _not_ to exist, thoug
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.
Something that has worked perfectly fine for decades really does not need anything else added to it for the sake of copying Internet fads.
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.
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.
It'a 10 x 6 ANSI graphic not a 3D face-scan my dude. Acting like BBS's hav 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
uses a chat system; the questions will be how to shut off the Ansi BS.
On 06 May 26 11:01:00, Hm Derdoc said the following to All:
from bundled sets — corporate logos, sci-fi heads, eighties stuff, futur originals — or they upload their own .bin over honest-to-god Zmodem,
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
Something that has worked perfectly fine for decades really does not need anything else added to it for the sake of copying Internet fads.
One doesn't take anything away from the other. Part of the appeal of this hobby is (and always has been) finding new ways to push this limited tech further.
uses a chat system; the questions will be how to shut off the Ansi BS.
Thats one thing I never understood either. These 10000000 line ansis. Whats the point? If it can't fit on 80x24, there's no use. Make something clean and simple. What these people don't remember, 1200-2400 baud was the norm. No one had the time to waste on waiting for a huge ansi to display. Even when 28.8/33.6 came around, it was still frowned upon in my BBS area.
Thats one thing I never understood either. These 10000000 line ansis. Whats the point? If it can't fit on 80x24, there's no use. Make something clean and simple. What these people don't remember, 1200-2400 baud was the norm. No one had the time to waste on waiting for a huge ansi to display. Even when 28.8/33.6 came around, it was still frowned upon in my BBS area.
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:
from bundled sets — corporate logos, sci-fi heads, eighties stuff futur originals — or they upload their own .bin over honest-to-go Zmodem,
out in the door's pixel editor. Their avatar travels with their mes everywhere. You get to know people by their faces.
I thought the whole point of a BBS chat system was to chat WITHOUT know 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
Thats one thing I never understood either. These 10000000 line ansis.
the point? If it can't fit on 80x24, there's no use. Make something
Sometimes I just wanna sit back and watch the art.
Thats one thing I never understood either. These 10000000 line ansis.
the point? If it can't fit on 80x24, there's no use. Make something
Exactly. It's one thing if the system will let you just hit the space bar abort the ANSI display, but I've come across a few (Like the long SBBS Ad comes with the software) that won't let me do that. I also find boards th have so much felgercarb you have to wade through before you even get to th main menu to be rather annoying.
Most days I just want to get to the main menu without being bothered.
Exactly. It's one thing if the system will let you just hit the space bar to abort the ANSI display, but I've come across a few (Like the long SBBS Ad that comes with the software) that won't let me do that. I also find boards that have so much felgercarb you have to wade through before you even get to the main menu to be rather annoying.
Thats one thing I never understood either. These 10000000 line ansis. Whats the point? If it can't fit on 80x24, there's no use. Make something clean and simple. What these people don't remember,
Most days I just want to get to the main menu without being bothered.
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