NULL mag Issue 06 14 Battle of the nets

eZine lover (@eZine)

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null magazine

 · 26 Dec 2020

  

 

 
    in a philosophical view, we can say that war brings evolution to 
    human kind. this is a well discussed subject and there are many 
    supporters of this opinion, that trough the breakthroughs in science 
    that are done because of war, man kind has evolved... at least... 
    technological. although is a tough thing to say, it has some truth 
    in it. 

    we can say that in a more civilized way of war is competition. you 
    try to win your opponent, to be first, better, bigger in economical 
    sizes and for the opponent to loose or even vanish, economical 
    speaking. and we all know, that competition does good in many ways 
    and levels in human society. 

    as bbs members we sure do know a lot about this. in the past many 
    programs were made, that in some point vanished or stopped developing 
    and being replaced by other competitor software. we can say in some 
    point "why do we need another bbs server or ansi editor", but as the 
    past showed as, newer software brings innovation (sometimes), old 
    software gets lost (perhaps because it was closed-source) and people 
    who were involved with that soft. they left the scene or even worse 
    died etc. 

    so, making new stuff about the same thing is not 100% bad. yes, it 
    has some negative aspects but overall i would say that its good 
    that's happening. at the time present, i see 4-6 bbs programs being 
    in active development, which for sure is good for the scene. it shows 
    that things are still moving, developing and going forward. for me 
    its not about which program will prevail. no one knows which program 
    will stay and which one will vanish, but the good thing is that bbs 
    programs are still a thing, so the bbs scene. ;) 

    the same thing applies to networks. other closed down, other are 
    still alive but with less or no traffic, some with more traffic than 
    others and so. even new networks appear and this is also good! as 
    time passes, people get change, have new preferences or they like 
    the new stuff and want to try it etc. this brings new nets, new 
    choices and for sure in some point, there will be some "angry 
    interaction" between members, heads of networks and/or groups, but 
    this is normal and that's what brings new things and innovation to 
    the scene, as people interact through new and/or old nets, exchange 
    opinions and so. 

    seeing some competition and angry comments in a net or group is not 
    bad at all. but we should never forget that nothing lasts for ever. 
    there was bbs soft. in a time, that all users used and now has 
    disappeared... the same for nets, which once they were famous and had 
    many members and now are gone or remain dormant with no traffic. the 
    scene needs this type of "war" to evolve, to "mutate", to stay alive. 
    its very normal and either sides should consider it as bad thing, nor 
    that there is a "winner" or "looser". the "winner" is the net/soft. 
    that is still present and being used and this can't be predicted, it 
    just happens. also for the "looser", it doesn't mean anything. it 
    just happened and "lost" or vanquished. 

    so the battle of the nets, programs, groups its still going on and so 
    the scene evolves... "so say we all"... hahahaha :) 
                         ^ 
                         [ the first one who will send me an email to tell 
                         me from which series this is... gets 10 
                         asciicoins :p