GLP in Textmode on a Linux Console. A BBS for 2020 and beyond.

It is almost like running a BBS in the late 80s and ealy 90s.

Awesome OP!

Could be a low bandwidth solution on a small computer like a raspberry pi. $35 for a PI plus a keyboard, mouse and an HDMI connection to a TV and you are browsing GLP. You would also need dialup or a cell modem/mifi in rural areas.

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Linux brings me back to the days of Windows NT. ;)

I started on a Ti99/4a and then to a PC with DOS 1.1 and worked my way up through the PC revolution.

could you just visit the website using the browser 'lynx; ?

https ://lynx.invisible-island.net/

C64 start didn't want the Apple with chicklet keyboard. Corporate HR nightmare presently; they can't cage me with my Red Swingline.

I have not used lynx in a long time but w3m will render frames and images in the graphical console frame buffer. It can also use the arrow keys to move around the page and then enter to follow a link or provide input in a form.

I avoid HR by making myself more technology driven then the young whipper snappers. The snowflakes have to come to me for help.

It would be cooler if you were running the browser inside of a Linux VM inside of a Windows VM on a Linux box and the Windows VM window was minimized.

I feel that might be a little too much context switching.

Call Clear

MoS

This is super cool. Could you post a pic of what individual posts look like?

That is how I started too. Sears was selling them for $99 with the speech synthesizer and cassette recorder. Loved Parsec. I was 14.

MoS

That's fun.

Think of the scripts you could write with that.

I shared it on my google drive. Are you able to see it?

[link to drive.google.com (secure)]

[link to drive.google.com (secure)]

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My scripting-fu strong!

+++ATH0&$:$+':(&?&_ejehrbkwmr(3!*;*#$NO CARRIER

Yep! AWESOME! Im thinking about learning linux. Id give you rgreen, but im all out! You rock.

Try this AT&F

I run it at home and on all my servers. When I need Windows I Remote Desktop into a Windows Server at work.

I am currently setting up 3 laptops to form a network bridge around our building setup in a ring. If one side goes down the route will still function in the other direction. Also old laptops make good routers/servers with a built-in UPS/Battery. ;)

Yeah. Mine too.

I kinda miss it.

Grab a Raspberry pi4 and sharpen your fu. $46

[link to www.amazon.com (secure)]

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Ahh the old BBS days. I remember the Wonder Works BBS and all the fun we had. Had mail calls from South America even. Was a great time to be into computers. I finally found some one who started an earlier version of MS than me. 1.1 ? After so many blue screens, gave up and migrated to Linux. Started out having to compile your own version which could take hours. Linus Rocks.

Soon.

It may have been PC-DOS 1.1. I do not remember if at the time it was MS-DOS or PC-DOS since they were the same but branded by IBM instead. I also worked with CPM from high school so DOS was familiar.

I ran my own OPUS BBS back in the day complete with a fidonet gateway and an UUNET hook up to the internet. Most people think the internet started with the Web Browser. Nothing like poring through pages of Archie search listings and downloading files using ftp.

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Here is a BBS that went back online.

[link to www.kuehlbox.wtf (secure)]

[link to www.kuehlbox.wtf (secure)]

Last Edited by Achduke7 on 12/04/2019 01:11 PM

OP, You RIDE!!

the browser is w3m ? Im going to try it lol


I used to run a BBS in 1991 called The Morgue , I was the Sysop Mr. Death .

I had windows 2.1 bootleged , some sierra games and other pirated software in my down load section .

I remember when I had gotten a second line and implemented p2p chat how cool it was I saw two of my users talking to each other for the first time .

I was one of the first BBSes in my area with chat and multiple lines.

Sudo apt-get install w3m :D :D