NULL mag Issue 07 15 The future of bbsing

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· 3 years ago

  

 

 
 ° 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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