> "private messages"/email has become common.  Chat is less
common, but not

  MSN Messenger, Yahoo, Gtalk, ICQ, AIM, IRC, etc.  Chat is everywhere.

 > unusual.  But multiplayer, sophisticated online games...?!  File transfer

  File transfer areas?  The internet is great at this!  There's tons of FTP 
sites, limewire, torrents, etc. etc. etc.

 > areas?!  ANSI art galleries?!  I'm really not sure web boards will ever

  ANSI art is a feature?  On the web I have full colour photo's and 3d 
artwork.

 > itself!  If it's an interesting world, it can be a refuge from the
 > massiveness of the Internet...and that's just a pompous way of saying it can
 > be a fun place to spend time at.

  I agree with you, but at the same time, what people have to realize is 
there's just no way your ever going to see the traditional BBS make a come 
back to what it once was.

  Personaly I'm with you and still prefer the user interface especially for 
messages, I just never got real used to posting / reading mail with a mouse.

 > to the web board experience, even though web forum software continues to gro
 > more and more sophisticated, so I think another reason the BBS will endure
 > indefinitely is because there is already such an excellent library of qualit

  I still think the web forum is the next generation "BBS", it's
got all the 
features now that BBS's did in the good ole' days.  Chat, messages, email, 
Java games, files, etc.  Now what someone needs to do is plug in a fidonet 
tosser into a web forum! ;)

Shawn

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