Earlier this week I came across Robert Watson‘s page on Porting WWIV 4.23 to FreeBSD. I immediately had flashbacks of my BBS days from years ago.
It’s hard to imagine that in the 80s and early 90s just about the only way I had access to email and message boards was through BBSs. Made some good friends from all that time spent on BBSs (hi Jay!). Staying up all night writing WWIV mods in C using Turbo C (I had the C/C++ version) from Borland. I recall Turbo C fitting on three 3 1/2 inch floppy disks. That included their editor application as well.
In some ways blogs and forums have become the web versions of what BBSs where back then. Now I just need to write a plugin for WordPress to support doors, then I could run Trade Wars on my blog!