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  • altairprime1 hour ago
    Gosh. I had forgotten what the QWK reader was called. Blue Wave’s UI is burned into my childhood memories. Thanks for the nostalgia :)<p>I at one point had {COMMO} custom auto-scripts set up to dial scan all 300 local BBSes each night, auto-login and grab their QWKmail packets, and then drop into Blue Wave so I could read through all the forums whenever I eventually woke up with key imprints on my forehead while waiting for the dialer. Best forums experience ever, lifetime to date.<p>QWK mail was what RSS could have become if phpBB had implemented two-way messaging over RSS rather than one-way: you download the RSS forums packet and then you upload your RSS replies packet, and use a reader app to track all your forums so that you can work through your reading and writing queue while offline and it all just worked, no drama and only 1 GET and 1 POST necessary per site per day to stay connected to all of them :)
  • hotelsacher56 minutes ago
    Did you see those windowlings hovering over the background and casting a shadow? Later user interfaces may have had more pixels, but they never had that coolness.
  • glimshe58 minutes ago
    Blue Wave? I&#x27;ll reply with: BlueBEEP.<p>If you know what it is, you know what it is.
  • quietFalcon56 minutes ago
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