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.

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nelgin wrote to All <=-

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.

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



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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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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

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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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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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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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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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.

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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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Re: Re: mIRC > BBS
By: nelgin to Gamgee on Thu Nov 12 2026 12:56:38

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

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal?

The Space program, up to the Space Shuttle, was all about beating the Russians; it was purely political and national pride.

Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic?

35 years? Try 107.

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Re: Re: mIRC > BBS
By: nelgin to Gamgee on Thu Nov 12 2026 12:56 pm

the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

We chose to do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.

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Re: Re: mIRC > BBS
By: Nightfox to nelgin on Thu Nov 12 2026 11:52 am

because we thought it would be easy."

Dangit, should've known someone would beat me to it.

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