Global Wars on Bulletin Board Systems
Monday, 7. August 2006, 01:00:00
I fear the end is near. But I've experienced this angst before. My wife and I enjoy starting our mornings with relatively strong coffee and cream, no sugar at our respective keyboards doing battle against other BBS users for planetary real estate. A tradition started in '91 at NWCS Online and then maintained at Nebeaux Nerdinski after NWCS went down from '95 through '03 when I gave up trying to keep a BBS alive on 6 regular users.
http://www.pmaco.com/nebeaux.html
That's when I found DataStream (bbs.dsbbs.net) and Maggie and I started playing Global Wars against Sun Ra, Moondog, Target Practice, Sydney Perpetrator and Matt. This was seriously cool, because now we actually had enough players to have a Team game and we hadn't been on a well enough populated board for that in many many years. That ride lasted until about a month ago when DataStream suddenly stopped "answering the phone" (no longer accurate, but we still use the term
and I had to hit google and look for another system with Global Wars players we could pit against. That search netted me HoloDeckOne BBS and Ozello BBS, neither of which had as many players as DataStream boasted, but did have enough dedicated players that we could get our morning "fix" as it were.
Oh frabjous joy when DataStream woke back up after a week off line. Joy blunted seriously with the discovery that our board's SysOp "Ace" had died of complications from his Muscular Dystrophy and the ensuing chaos had left the BBS neglected until Vagabond and others could commit to one of Ace's dying wishes that his BBS be kept alive for his users.
Now reality has set in again and I realize we lost Target Practice in the interrim and now don't have enough active players to fill out a team game anymore. I'll keep starting them in the hopes that another visitor will join a team game, but I fear the end is in sight. Someday, the joy of Bulletin Board Systems is going to fade into history along with family farms, state sovereignty, customer loyalty and citizenship rights.
Smiley
has been SysOp
Nebeaux Nerdinski BBS
http://www.pmaco.com/nebeaux.html
That's when I found DataStream (bbs.dsbbs.net) and Maggie and I started playing Global Wars against Sun Ra, Moondog, Target Practice, Sydney Perpetrator and Matt. This was seriously cool, because now we actually had enough players to have a Team game and we hadn't been on a well enough populated board for that in many many years. That ride lasted until about a month ago when DataStream suddenly stopped "answering the phone" (no longer accurate, but we still use the term
and I had to hit google and look for another system with Global Wars players we could pit against. That search netted me HoloDeckOne BBS and Ozello BBS, neither of which had as many players as DataStream boasted, but did have enough dedicated players that we could get our morning "fix" as it were.Oh frabjous joy when DataStream woke back up after a week off line. Joy blunted seriously with the discovery that our board's SysOp "Ace" had died of complications from his Muscular Dystrophy and the ensuing chaos had left the BBS neglected until Vagabond and others could commit to one of Ace's dying wishes that his BBS be kept alive for his users.
Now reality has set in again and I realize we lost Target Practice in the interrim and now don't have enough active players to fill out a team game anymore. I'll keep starting them in the hopes that another visitor will join a team game, but I fear the end is in sight. Someday, the joy of Bulletin Board Systems is going to fade into history along with family farms, state sovereignty, customer loyalty and citizenship rights.
Smiley
has been SysOp
Nebeaux Nerdinski BBS
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