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WC circa 2006 (from the Wayback Machine Archive)

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WC circa 2006 (from the Wayback Machine Archive)

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Peter Martin

WC circa 2006 (from the Wayback Machine Archive)

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Re: WC circa 2006 (from the Wayback Machine Archive)

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Ellis Walentine

Salad Days

We've come a long way, haven't we?


Re: WC circa 2006 (from the Wayback Machine Archive)

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Peter Martin

Re: Salad Days

This is where I became familiar with WebBBS. It was a local discussion board which catered to citizens posting anonymously (a lot of political corruption where people were afraid to speak out publicly for fear of retribution) being hosted on a BBS service popular at the time, Network54. But because people feared them tracking them via IP, I offered to host it on our own server where nothing was tracked and even the IP logs were deleted hourly via CRON lest we get a court order to release them.

https://web.archive.org/web/20031203172817/http://www.dickensononline.com/dcdb.pl

A lot of political corruption was exposed by people speaking out and offering facts which could be verified, and a number of power people in office went to prison because of it. I guess we were the first Wikileaks. :)

WebBBS gradually fell out of favor as other forum software was developed and its author had some personal issues and passed the project on to others who didn't do much to keep up with the competition writing forum software in PHP with SQL databases and a format that didn't required clicking on each individual reply.  Bandwidth was getting faster and keeping page sizes small wasn't the concern it was on dial-up. Then around 2006, came the iPhone and Twitter and MySpace and Facebook, and they all began taking users who favored their formats, and by 2010, most of the loyal user base had moved on, and by 2013, it was dead and shut down.

This happened to all forums. Their once unique ability to offer interactive communication which everyone found to useful became replaced by social networks and blogs.

And then came the development of the "Cloud" and Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) where "websites" were set up as turnkey systems for a monthly/yearly fee and many unique websites became replaced by "template" versions written by corporations.

My days of being interested in interactive online communication long predate this, however. I had become interested in the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor to the Internet, and had set up dial-up "BBS" systems from which terms forum and message boards originate. I had always considered the invention of the Gutenberg press as being the most trans-formative event in history, and if the ability were extended to where ANYONE anywhere could print, publish, and communicate worldwide, civilization would rise to its next level.

Corruption and dishonesty would have no where to hide, with people united worldwide in exposing the hidden agendas of the men in ivory towers standing on their balconies stirring up hate and proclaiming to the (uneducated) masses to, "Go forth and murder each other" in the name of God and County or whatever else they could come up with to justify gearing up the money machines of war.

It would bring in the New Age of Aquarius with Peace, Love, and Green 'Maters.

Boy, was I wrong. And discussing politics is against the Terms and Conditions of Use so I'll shut up now and get back to changing the menus again. ;)


Re: WC circa 2006 (from the Wayback Machine Archive)

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Re: Salad Days

Jeez. Al Stokka, Moses Yoder, Jim Shaver, Bill Grumbine, Dan Donaldson, Rod Peterson: familiar names I haven't seen in many years.


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