-=> Quoting Eric Oulashin to Nancy Backus on 01-18-11  11:05 <=-

Just want to say in advance... this issue is one of those obviously
"people's tastes/needs vary" ones... ;)

 EO> For one thing, communicating with people over the internet instant and
 EO> real-time, whereas with FidoNet, there was a delay from when you post
 EO> a message and could get replies..  A message on FidoNet could take
 EO> quite a while to spread to all other BBSs on FidoNet, depending on how
 EO> often a BBS polled its source, etc..  Also, the internet seemed
 EO> unlimited in what you could do.  First, there was the web, and the

Half a point there, from my point of view..  ;)  A little delay never
bothered me, and I don't mind a little extra time to think through what
I want to say... once in a while instant and real-time is useful, for
that I would normally use the phone, though... ;)

 EO> real-time chat with pretty much anyone; there was also a service (and
 EO> software) I had found, called Kali, that let you play multi-player
 EO> computer games with people over the internet - These weren't door
 EO> games, but games that ran on a local PC like Warcraft 2, Doom,
 EO> Descent, Descent 2, etc. - games that were popular around 1995 or so.. 
 EO> The multi-player feature of these games was designed to run on Novell
 EO> networks, and Kali would emulate a Novell network for these games so
 EO> they could be played over the internet.  Besides that, it just seemed
 EO> like there was so much else you could do online that you couldn't do on
 EO> a BBS. 

Games (mostly) didn't and don't appeal to me...  and it took a while
before there was real genealogy information available via the web... at
the beginning it was mostly just people putting their research (some
good and some not at all good) on their own pages.  Real facts only came
later as societies started publishing online... 

 EO> Also, internet-based software tended to use a GUI, whereas BBSs still
 EO> tended to be text-based..  I suppose it seemed refreshing to use a GUI
 EO> sometimes.. 

And for me, ANSI was sufficient to pretty things up, and text-based is
more comfortable than GUI...  As I said, each to his own taste.  :)

ttyl      neb

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