Re: Synchronet External Programs (Linux)
  By: Zombie Mambo to Nightfox on Fri Jul 05 2019 03:49 pm

 ZM> I remember rip. i also remember it never really took off like people
 ZM> thought it would, at least not down here. I had rip enabled on my dial up
 ZM> in the mid 90's. 

 ZM> BBS purists were not rip users.
 ZM> BBS purists prefered text, not ansi, and < 1200bps.

 ZM> Sound, Ansi mice, those were blasphemous!

 ZM> 

I feel like RIP may have come a little too late.  I first started seeing RIP
appear around late 1993 or early 1994, and by then, the internet was just
starting to get more popular.  ANSI was already very common and widespread by
then too.  I also remember seeing at least one BBS in my area that used
RoboBoard, which was another GUI protocol for BBSes.  I think there was just
one RoboBoard BBS client program though; it might not have been an open
protocol like RIP was.

Nightfox

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