It’s exams time. So, it’s time to order CD’s, read half-abandoned books and test new programs and hacks 
So I decided to become a point at FicBBS (Faculty of Computer Science’s BBS). I begun some months ago, but I had left in the middle of configuring. To install the software is easy if you use Debian GNU/Linux: binkd (FidoTech TCP/IP mailer) and golded+ (Fido and Usenet mail reader) are official packages, and hpt (FTN message tosser) and fidoconf-runtime are in a Debian-style repository at the husky proyect. Configuration is easy too with the ficbbs point package (if you don’t have mistakes typing like me 
), and if you have problems, sysops are kind boys 
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The first time I meet BBS’s was in 1990 when I bought my first 16-bit computer (an Amstrad 80286 with, oh! 40 Mb RLL hard disk). The computer come home with a 1200 bps modem as gift, and programs to connect to the Ibertex net (the Spanish shabby Videotex). It seemed wonderful in the beginning, I belong to the Wargames generation. But the bad service, the fussing phone line near electric lines and the strange high bills to my parents pushed me to leave slowly. The University was near, anyway, and Internet access with it.
It seemed with Internet was the end of BBS’s, Fidonet and so on. But when I become a GPUL member I discovered a very active FicBBS. In the final 90′s I connected from my OpenVMS account in my School to the BBS using telnet.
No new generation took over the place of people that left. I missed for some years, the same years that GPUL was near to miss too. But with the rebirth of my lug three years ago, some of us went again into the BBS. Sysops and system changed, so I couldn’t connect by telnet, then I used newsreader (pan).
Newsreader was not enough to me. I like to feel pure sensations. As nobody can connect by phone now, the most pure method I can use is FTN over TCP/IP. And I really enjoy it. Do you think they are obsolete? I say you: BBS’s are the future and they are going to impose on 
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