YaBBSE

[Saleh]

foreach ( $member as $user ) {
  echo $user . ' , you should be delightful that you once had [known] YaBBSE and it\'s dev team ..';
}//notice that [Known] part :)

echo 'FINALY , [ php ] tags are on show !!<BR>';
echo 'I hated it when it was only <?php '; 

[PeterL]

I hope that's clear, but if not, I don't blame you, because I'm not certain I understand. My last experience with a BBS was an old 5 line PCBoard.

Thanks
Peter

Woot! Another PCBoard sysop! I ran one from around 1986 to 1996 when the Internet took away all my users. OTOH, I've been running various websites since 1996 too.

BTW, if you ever ran DLTrimit on PCB, that was from me (Complications BBS). 

Amazing stuff, eh?

My first BBS was a single line OPUS board that I had in a little room I rented in downtown Toronto. It was running on a Cordata xt with 512K and a 20 meg hard drive. I thought the 1200 baud modem was a sceamer after the old 300.

I used to have the computer right next to my bed and when someone callled the board, I'd wake up, swing my feet out of bed and chat with them.

It was called The Taxi Stand and it was in the early 80's.

Peter

[charlottezweb]

Ahh, good ol' BBS'   

It was the freaking coolest thing in the world to hear that connection sound, although I never really did anything all that  exciting once connected.  I chatted with a guy on his setup once.  I think the name of the local one I'd connect to was Chewy Chunks or something like that.    ah, the good ol' days back before you could easily get on this here InterWeb thingy. 

Jason

[Jeff Lewis]

I always remember logging on to Renegade BBS' the most...ah good times on the 1400

[Michele]

I think us BBS users and SysOps were the first folks to get on the Internet, and the first to use a web browser (outside of universities). I remember when it was extremely hard to find someone who would give you access to the Internet too... usually you had to beg.

I missed the 300 baud modems and started with a (very expensive) 1200 baud one. Running RBBS for the first few months until I discovered PCBoard. The nice thing about BBSes (and now our forums) are how closely knit the folks get after a while. A BBS was nothing without message boards, and was ultra-cool if they also had FidoNet.

If you think about it, most forum packages aren't much more than our old message boards were. Oh, they have a few more features, but the concept is the same. We just moved from local boards to worldwide ones. And like our BBSes, the forums were surrounded by a site.

The more things change, the more they stay the same!
Michele

[PeterL]

The more things change, the more they stay the same!
Michele

Ahhh Michele, true, true...

The thing I find mind boggling now, is that the young people, both here and elsewhere are so knowledgeable. In the early eighties "I" was one of those youngsters who help those olders, and now here I am, relying on a young whippersnapper to help me...

Ah well, that's progress.

[sneedo]

Yes, we will upgrade your current install to SMF but keep in mind that SMF is not considered a stable release.  IT is currenlty in a beta state and thus there will be bugs no matter how hard we try.  If you do upgrade just open a support ticket requesting the upgrade and include your FTP server information, MySQL username and password, and a user account logon for your forum.  One of our support staff will then upgrade your forum.

oh man, that's classy indeed