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Nerds 
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Running it on a Raspberry Pi in Dosbox could save a whole lot of electricity. 
Hm. I might have a use for fTelnet. Most telnet/SSH clients need user configuration (and installation!) to handle codepages and the mouse, which would be death even for a silly project.
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Dial-up modems? Luxury!
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Ah, nostalgia. I ran my own BBS back in the day, which I also wrote myself in Turbo Pascal.
I met people that I’m still friends with today.
I still have a copy of it.
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I still have a harddrive with mine sitting in a drawer, but the controller is fried.
Back in the day, when being silly, we tried to whistle the carrier signal for our uplink, and only then initiate data transmission. Surprisingly, that worked rather frequenπ{™$}}l%=%={¥`÷√§§÷°¥÷NO CARRIER
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“Modern BBS software” is an oxymoron.
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Ah, the BBS memories…
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i’ve always assumed that stood for boing boing… ummm… splat. right?
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