Many years ago, long before the Internet became, lived an era where some p would run or access bulletin board systems (BBS) and most would use their and dial up to a BBS in order to obtain new software, send/receive message with other people, and generally exist in online communities. The BBS was entirely text mode, you would dial up someone's computer, spend some time looking for, downloading, and sometimes uploading files.
After the Internet became available for the likes of you and me, the gener public, not limited to colleges and universities, a new way of communicati was developed, using Internet protocols, faster, more secure, and multitaskable (I may have just made that word up, but you know what I mean it :P)
The BBS became the Hotline server/client which became KDX server/client, B if you will. This provided a graphical window set way of connecting to a server, transferring files, reading/posting messages, a realtime chat room rooms, even voice chat! All of this was from the beginning encrypted (unle for some reason that was disabled to make things faster due to the tech at the time)... [read more at the link at the bottom]
Sysop: | Nelgin |
---|---|
Location: | Plano, TX |
Users: | 510 |
Nodes: | 10 (1 / 9) |
Uptime: | 128:53:17 |
Calls: | 8,198 |
Files: | 15,445 |
Messages: | 913,715 |