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NULL mag Issue 07 15 The future of bbsing
° if we make a technological comparison between the "golden era" of bbsing
and today, for sure we can see many changes... and i am sure you are
all ready reading this with a bit of skepticism :) i am not going to
compare windows 10 with dos, for sure... but some late announcements
from the linux community and also from the windows/ms side, make me
think on how, what, where is the future of bbsing going?
° you probably heard that linux, in some point is going to drop 32bit
support. windows 10 also have a hard time with 32bit compatibility and
for us, bbsers this is big subject. dropping 32bit support, means that
a lot of old software wont be able to work on newer systems. this will
sent to oblivion many programs, games, utilities from our beloved
bbses. in some way, a different one, this also happened in the past,
but perhaps, with less losses. perhaps in the future we may loose more
stuff... who knows.
° today there are two "ways" of bbsing... build/use an old system, like
a home computer, a 386/486/pentium computer or use modern bbs software
in modern systems. both have their pros and cons. the thing is... and
the risk i am seeing for the future, that bbsing doesn't have a lot
new users, i mean young ones, that would like to develop new software
or continue developing the old, open sourced ones. and this is normal.
it's like telling a 17 year old kid, to leave his smartphone and
listen music with a cassette player... perhaps even harder. i don't
think that many of us, will be still around here and developing
software for this hobby of ours. even now, developing stuff for a bbs
is scarce.
° so... how do i see bbses in the future? hmm... tough question... but i
think that it will be based on old machines, running old software, or
at least using the machines and software we use up to now. in some
point, bbs software will stop developing or it will be in such a
level, that it will be shown as stopped.
° we are now in an era that many retro stuff, is on the surface again...
just because the teenagers of the 70-80-90s are in their "nostalgia
era" and us they/we pass by, so the retro-fashion will also disappear
and/or replaced by things that the teenagers of the present, will fill
nostalgic about them in the future. :)
° the solution would be to bring "new blood" to the hobby, by intriguing
younger people, but as we all ready have said many times, it's hard to
do, mainly because their is a large technological and age gap, between
the two generations.
° so... keep calm... let us take our pills... and keep bbsing... :)
hahaha lol lol lol omg... us the youngsters would wrote...
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