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  • Re: mIRC > BBS

    From nelgin@1:103/705 to Gamgee on Thu Nov 12 12:56:38 2026
    Re: Re: mIRC > BBS
    By: Gamgee to nelgin on Thu Nov 12 2026 08:34:13

    Interesting, but.... (as you said)... why?

    But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

    We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to nelgin on Thu Nov 12 11:52:08 2026
    Re: Re: mIRC > BBS
    By: nelgin to Gamgee on Thu Nov 12 2026 12:56 pm

    We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

    I once saw a meme online that said "We did this not because it was easy, but because we thought it would be easy."

    Nightfox

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  • From nelgin@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Thu Nov 12 16:12:22 2026
    Re: Re: mIRC > BBS
    By: Nightfox to nelgin on Thu Nov 12 2026 11:52:08

    I once saw a meme online that said "We did this not because it was easy, but because we thought it would be easy."

    That's why I end up with a list of unfinished projects.

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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to nelgin on Thu Nov 12 15:01:17 2026
    Re: Re: mIRC > BBS
    By: nelgin to Nightfox on Thu Nov 12 2026 04:12 pm

    I once saw a meme online that said "We did this not because it was easy,
    but because we thought it would be easy."

    That's why I end up with a list of unfinished projects.

    Years ago, the office supply store chain Staples had a slogan that said "That was easy." They also sold "Easy" buttons where you could press it and it would repeat the slogan ("That was easy."). At my first software job, my manager (who was the company owner) had one of those Easy buttons, and sometimes after finishing something that ended up being difficult, we'd press that button..

    Nightfox

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  • From Gamgee@1:103/705 to nelgin on Thu Nov 12 21:23:01 2026
    nelgin wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Re: Re: mIRC > BBS
    By: Gamgee to nelgin on Thu Nov 12 2026 08:34:13

    Interesting, but.... (as you said)... why?

    But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

    We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they
    are hard.

    I get the reference, and the perceived similarity, but... they're not
    really the same thing because what you have "solved" can already be done
    in several other ways, all of which are better/faster/easier.

    But that's OK, it's an interesting project if nothing else.



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  • From nelgin@1:103/705 to Gamgee on Thu Nov 12 23:16:26 2026
    Re: Re: mIRC > BBS
    By: Gamgee to nelgin on Thu Nov 12 2026 21:23:01

    But that's OK, it's an interesting project if nothing else.

    Thanks for your appeciation and encouragement. That really helps me work on other shit that people might want to use later.

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  • From mro@1:103/705 to nelgin on Fri Nov 13 09:36:42 2026
    Re: mIRC > BBS
    By: nelgin to All on Thu Nov 12 2026 04:07 am

    Why? Why not... I can connect to my BBS or any wss enabled BBS I guess
    from my mIRC IRC client.

    https://youtu.be/onNkJT3F9r4

    Let me know what you think and I may make the script public for anyone
    who wants to give it a try.

    â–  Synchronet â–  End Of The Line BBS - endofthelinebbs.com

    the wss stuff seems interesting and i don't know much about it. i see a guy had
    a website and you could connect to his bbs via wss.

    that being said, this looks like something that was a proof of concept and not something people would like to do.

    also if you are using mirc now, switch to something better. that guy doesn't even honor licenses.

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