Arlecchino Malbenvolio / Community / BBS
Okay, first off:
I'm not Italian. Most of the Italian comes from the names of
characters in the Commedia Dell'Arte which it the precursor to just
about every form of humor with which we in the West are familiar such as
Vaudeville, Slapstick, Circus, Parades, Charlie Chaplin's Little
Tramp, The Marx Brothers, etc ... The BBS is a member of a strange group of softwares
known as 'room-based' systems, specifically, the Citadel
variety. One of the first boards that I remember was an old
Idea-Tree in Vancouver, Washington. I had no idea later that I'd end
up in the twisted soap opera of the Citadel community in Seattle, but here
I am. Now, if you've been here before and come back you'll
have noticed the conspicuous absence of my board from the land of living
things. This would be, technically speaking, because it's toast. I keep
thinking about reviving it, but let's be honest: no one called it. Excepting
for a few die-hard modem users with whom I don't even communicate
anymore, no one probably even remembers it.
I'm pretty sure that the successor to the citadel is really the wiki, anyway, if one were to extend the ideals of the citadel to an Internet-based system. The other option, it seems to me, would be a front-end to an IMAP server, with shared name-spaces. But, really, the wiki seems the next logic step in the evolution of citadel.
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