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BBS in Asia 原po是正妹 2019/02/20 (Wed) 14:02:34 No.3701

Bulletin Board System are still popular in China/Taiwan and have millions of users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTH_BBS

Did anyone ever look into these? Is there anything meaningful or even english content? From the wiki, it seems like the chinese government shut down a whole bunch of them and after reopening, you had to register with your data, so there is no anonymous posting. Taiwan seems to be good though.

Anyway I find it interesting that such systems are still alive and well somewhere on this planet. Are BBS still in widespread use in other places? I could imagine South Africa or India or so? I know that we still have them in the west, but it always seemed like they are only there to serve nostalgia with few users and little activity.

Unidentified 2019/02/20 (Wed) 16:06:03 No.3702

>>3701

I like the look of BBS, I don't think it's relevant, correct me if i'm wrong it just a forum in a terminal right it doesn't even have better privacy or security feature. There must be some in english again but i don't think a lot of people use them anyway in third world country.

Arisu Mizuki 2019/02/20 (Wed) 19:13:20 No.3703

A whole bunch out there. Very relevant considering the reasoning some of the operators have for running BBS software. Namely the lack of resources required. Very low life high tech.

Zhora Salome 2019/02/20 (Wed) 20:10:46 No.3704

它们有很多政府检察院， not worth it

3701 2019/02/20 (Wed) 21:00:55 No.3705

>>3702
sure, it's just regular forums, with the millions of users it's likely the same facebook-tier posting than anywhere else. I still think it's amazing that all those people are on telnet in 2019.

Poor people these days usually have a cheap android and are forced to use zero rated services, but somehow this also exists. Maybe these guys still use their 90s Pentiums.

The Plague 2019/02/21 (Thu) 18:16:42 No.3708

>>3703
>>3705

Yeah sure, it's great if your poor and would definitely love to have something like that if i had limited resources.

I just think you can have the same thing less complicated then BBS.

Deckard 2019/02/27 (Wed) 06:18:46 No.3726

>>3701
> it is currently administrated by the Electronic BBS Research Society as a non-commercial and open-source BBS.[2]

Hunh. That's pretty cool.

Azuma 2019/03/07 (Thu) 07:12:31 No.3737

>>3701
South Africa doesn't really have much in the way of an internet culture I'm afraid. Most of the country only came online post-facebook and most of the country uses the internet via a mobile device, rather than a PC or laptop

Hannibal Chew 2019/03/07 (Thu) 08:18:11 No.3738

Really makes me think what kind of underground online networks exist in countries like China. With such an absurd amount of people and such an oppressive government there is bound to be a lot of different networks for shady stuff and user privacy.

Officer K 2019/03/14 (Thu) 14:34:53 No.3761

>>3702
Your wrong. Its a text stream rendered on server to a terminal. There is no javascript, no plugins, no DOM. Only an incredibly tiny attack surface - the terminal - tested over decades.