Before anyone asks, BBS is an ancient communication platform, a door is an interface that allowed users to enter external applications like extensions, and a door game is just a text-based game played with a door, often roleplaying games.
A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users through email, public message boards, and sometimes via direct chatting. Many BBSes also offer on-line games in which users can compete with each other, and BBSes with multiple phone lines often provide chat rooms, allowing users to interact with each other. Bulletin board systems were in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web, social networks, and other aspects of the Internet.
BBS door
A door in a bulletin board system is an interface between the BBS software and an external application. The term is also used to refer to the external application, a computer program that runs outside of the main bulletin board program. Sometimes called external programs, doors are the most common way to add games, utilities, and other extensions to BBSes. Because BBSes typically depended on the telephone system, BBSes and door programs tended to be local in nature, unlike modern Internet games and applications.
As someone posting in an edgy 4chan-wannabe community at that age, can you tell me where you went wrong in your life? I don't want to make the same mistake.
Forum games that are basically the same thing are still pretty popular. I remember a Polish guy in my class at college would fuck around with some dragon breeding game.
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1 SnapshillBot 2017-10-03
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1 Dramalamathrowaway 2017-10-03
Explain plz
1 snallygaster 2017-10-03
I just made an explanation post, but it's basically just a text-based game played on BBS, like roleplaying games and shit.
1 snallygaster 2017-10-03
Before anyone asks, BBS is an ancient communication platform, a door is an interface that allowed users to enter external applications like extensions, and a door game is just a text-based game played with a door, often roleplaying games.
1 WikiTextBot 2017-10-03
Bulletin board system
A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users through email, public message boards, and sometimes via direct chatting. Many BBSes also offer on-line games in which users can compete with each other, and BBSes with multiple phone lines often provide chat rooms, allowing users to interact with each other. Bulletin board systems were in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web, social networks, and other aspects of the Internet.
BBS door
A door in a bulletin board system is an interface between the BBS software and an external application. The term is also used to refer to the external application, a computer program that runs outside of the main bulletin board program. Sometimes called external programs, doors are the most common way to add games, utilities, and other extensions to BBSes. Because BBSes typically depended on the telephone system, BBSes and door programs tended to be local in nature, unlike modern Internet games and applications.
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1 im-a-koala 2017-10-03
So what did you roleplay as?
1 ironicshitpostr 2017-10-03
/u/snallygaster liked pretending she was a wolf, she's acknowledged this before.
I'd look it up in her comments but that's too much work.
1 im-a-koala 2017-10-03
Well good thing I know someone who's good at looking up old comments.
/u/snallygaster can you find your comment about pretending to be a wolf? thx
1 snallygaster 2017-10-03
didn't i do an informat ama about that like 2 years ago, or did i mention it more recently? my memory is hazy.
1 snallygaster 2017-10-03
That was on the internet tho; sadly I was too young for BBS
1 Unironicshitpostr 2017-10-03
This but unironically
1 toynbeeidea16 2017-10-03
I was around in the BBS days, am old.
BRE = Barren Realms Elite: http://www.johndaileysoftware.com/products/bbsdoors/barrenrealmselite/
1 botchlings 2017-10-03
Me too. I used to run a BBS with a buddy of mine in the early/mid-90s. Shut it down when we both went away to college.
1 Rezingreenbowl 2017-10-03
I used to play lord alot. I remember a dude from my school opened up a second node, and we all lost our shit.
1 IvankaTrumpIsMyWaifu 2017-10-03
You realize no one on /r/drama is old enough to have used Dial Up internet let alone BBS door games?
LOL
1 toynbeeidea16 2017-10-03
I'm 41, and got my first modem (300 baud on a Commodore 64) in the late 80s/early 90s.
1 IvankaTrumpIsMyWaifu 2017-10-03
Acoustic coupler for the win!
1 toynbeeidea16 2017-10-03
Matthew Broderick, is that you?
1 IvankaTrumpIsMyWaifu 2017-10-03
GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALCON
...beep...boop...
DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A GAME OF CHESS?
1 gilmore606 2017-10-03
me too thanks (qlink terrorists represent)
1 Fokusfaehre 2017-10-03
As someone posting in an edgy 4chan-wannabe community at that age, can you tell me where you went wrong in your life? I don't want to make the same mistake.
1 toynbeeidea16 2017-10-03
I just like to have fun. If that's going wrong, I don't wanna be right.
Also autism.
1 battles 2017-10-03
I'm 39. I also had a Commodore 64 and modem. Reddit is just another Fidonet hub for me.
1 botchlings 2017-10-03
I got my first modem around 90/91. Used it exclusively to access BBS'
1 saint2e 2017-10-03
My first modem was 2400 baud.
1 LemonScore 2017-10-03
Forum games that are basically the same thing are still pretty popular. I remember a Polish guy in my class at college would fuck around with some dragon breeding game.
1 Awayfone 2017-10-03
I had dial up in elementary, the late nineties I think
1 TruthPains 2017-10-03
Pfft, late 90's, try playing Tribes with Dial Up. Almost a full second betwen click and shoot.