[UFO Chicago] random rant

[Ryan]

Ok, up for 26 hours trying to find old drivers = good reason to delurk on 
random mailing lists & rant!
Ahem.
Did anyone here do the BBS thing? I joined this list after seeing some 
slashdot article on how wireless was going to be the next "local" bbs-like 
thing, where small communities would grow & happy people would share 
bandwidth with their neighbors, etc. Well.. not much of that going on here. 
But the idea still intrigues me... despite how much "faster & bigger" the 
internet may be, I still think it sucks in terms of community, compared to 
the old days. I live in the suburbs, so I don't expect to log into my 
neighbor's box, but you guys are all in the city (I take it) - why isn't 
there some huge, neo-bbs hobbyist thing going on, where everyone is 
interacting with everyone else, on a LOCAL level? The technology doesn't 
exist? People don't care? Mailing lists are good enough? etc

I've never met a BBS'er who didn't miss the old days. We must'a been doing 
something right..