Subj : bringing back videotex
To   : All
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri Nov 08 2019 07:50 pm

Hello!


This just heard in the FTSC_PUBLIC echo:

 From: Deon George, 3:633/509
 Date: 11/6/2019 8:38 PM

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While I actually like the technology and I think its pretty awesome what
was achieved back in the day - I'd like to see it progress taking
advantage of today's available technologies (while keeping the legacy
aspect of it). I also like the fact, that is kinda working alongside
today's world - without the invasion (of commerical ads, spam, etc).

As an example, I'm bringing back "videotex", but with ANSI, interBBS
capable, so that a "network of BBSes" can be logically one large BBS, but
still have its own personalisaiton on a part of it.

(If you know/knew videotex - it was "Interactive Teletex", "page" based
where pages were owned by service providers. I'm enabling BBSes to own a
page prefix, so if you connect to any videotex enabled BBS, you could see
all pages from that single location. I'm dont know if others will want to
use what I'm creating, but I'm having fun reliving it and creating it.)

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Later, George adds:

 DG> You can see it in action on my BBS telnet: //alterant.leenooks.net -
 DG> you'll notice I'm running Synchronet, and when you get the option
 DG> change the shell to Ansitex.


Let's check it out!





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