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Comment by 🐙 norayr

Re: "Just watching some retro CoCo content on Youtube and there..."

In: u/drh3xx

and thank you for the idea of dialup bbs server hosted on mobile! it is really cool.

just not all users today have modems, then we also need mobile apps to dial the numbers and connect to our bbses.

well tcp/ip is cheaper than phone calls where you pay for minute and transfer less bytes. (:

🐙 norayr

2023-12-04 · 7 months ago

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🐐 drh3xx [OP] · 2023-12-04 at 06:50:

@norayr thanks for the comments. Another good way to get around the lack of a static ip (atleast if you don't want lots of control of the domain name) is tailscale tunnels.

🐙 norayr · 2023-12-04 at 08:19:

true. i just learned about those yesterday.

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🐐 drh3xx

Just watching some retro CoCo content on Youtube and there was mention of dialing in to a BBS at 300baud in 2023. This got me thinking... In the UK atleast mobile contracts only really charge their users for Data and premium rate calls/xMS. Does anyone know if someone has fudged together a BBS style system hosted on a Linux mobile? In theory you'd be able to host it on a minimal data contract for a few pounds a month. You'd be limited to 1 or 2 simultaneous connections but you could maybe use...

💬 4 comments · 2 likes · 2023-12-03 · 7 months ago