Then, now and always will be...
by: [email protected] When I started BBSing back in the early 90's on a TRS-80 I had no idea what I was doing, much like how people that try to do new things. It's a learning process. Without prior experience with technology I was on my way to do something until this day. Around 1996, I started Stepping Stone BBS on my parent's land-line running only late at night; as I couldn't afford to run my own land-line as I was an early teen just wanting to do something amazing. Later on, I received an e-mail from someone I did not know requesting that I setup a Tradewars 2002 server for her friends and herself. So I set it up; that was in December of 2009. 10 years later, I've switched between Synchronet and Mystic as well as between Windows and Linux (Ubuntu respectively). Many times I had to start from scratch or pull old data from one system to another. It's been quite a journey from the beginning, the mid-times and until the current date. My hope is that BBSing won't become obsolete and will be here for many decades to come. During my journey I learned to develop my own door game Legion RPG written in C++ that I ported myself between Windows, Linux and RPi in 32-bit and 64- bit. The door has come a long way and before long it may even appear on game servers such as BBSLink and Door Party. I encouraging anyone interested in the BBS scene to jump on BBSes and apply for access before running one of your own. If you find the desire and motivation to build your own, I suggest you find a piece of software you like the most, stick with it, design and customize it to its potential. Also to mention to keep things active just as you would see in a store. Don't hesistate to move around a few things, make new designs... keep the audiences attention. If you're up to the task and take it serious and can provide time into this investment, you won't regret it.
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