[kwlug-disc] a present for the older guys here...

[Mark Steffen]

Fellow Major/Worldgroup fan. WG was pretty neat, especially their Winsock implementation in the Windows client, let you become an AOL-style “easy” ISP (no messing around with SLIP and Trumpet windsock etc.).  Too bad it was so short-lived.  I first tried Major in 89 when I bought a license off some guy in Stratford for 2 lines, contacted Galacticomm and got the gaming edition or whatever it was called added — it was a fixed selection of a few games, but people liked the chats and forums the most it seemed anyway.  I still remember “SRQS” or “FRQS” commands to check for new message board messages.

Tim Stryker (Gcomm founder) was a smart guy, was sad when I heard about his passing. :(

Mark

> On Nov 29, 2022, at 10:25 PM, jekerr at sdf.org wrote:
> 
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> 
> When I was fresh out of Sheridan College with my Library Techniques
> Diploma I obtained my first library position partly due to my diploma, but
> mainly because I knew how to establish an online database, and back in the
> days of DOS and 1200 baud modems, few people had any idea as to how to do
> that. How? every BBS had a file download component that gave the ability
> to search the file collection by keyword or file name and in the case of
> text files, keyword search within a file. There you have it! An online
> database.
> 
> My curiosity of BBSing won the day for me. PCboard was my software, and
> then when the Major BBS came out with the graphics ability I went with it.
> But when I purchased the software they had just released an Internet
> connectivity component. Since I was based at the University of Guelph
> attaching my BBS to the Internet was easy.
> Excehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_BBSpt that....
> It also came with a web server component. So I presented our information
> on a web server and within a few months there was no activity on the BBS,
> everything was accessed (and accessed by a much wider audience) on the web
> server. That was in 1994.
> 
> Not too long after that, the commercial BBS software companies went
> bankrupt. This included companies that created the software and the BBS
> sites. Canada Remote Systems, one of the most popular BBS vendors made a
> gallant effort to stay relevant but they too bit the dust to the WWW.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCBoard
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_BBS
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Remote_Systems
> 
> It was around 1994 that the world changed but by 1996 it was all over for
> the BBS .
> 
> Cheers
> John
> Cheers,
> John Kerr
> 
> 
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