One of my fave screencaps right here. These are ANSI art avatars used on Fidonet - the text-based BBS network.
@PsychoCod3r Ahh Fidonet. I was a point there a long time ago. I miss those echomail networks.
Was on some local echomail networks as well, had a lot of fun!
But where on Fidonet would those avatars be used? I see this screencap is from The DUNGEON BBS, that's a BBS, not Fidonet itself?
@trinsec
I was using SyncTERM. The bar at the bottom shows whatever BBS you're logged into at the time. I was accessing the Fidonet interface on that BBS. This particular interface gives you the option to use an avatar for all your Fidonet messages.
@PsychoCod3r Interesting. I've used uhhh... wow that's a long time ago, trying to remember all those names here...
I used FrontDoor as a mailer and a front-end for picking up calls as well for a BBS I used to run back then. That handled my mails from Fidonet, and some local networks...
My BBS had a fancy editor that my users could use to write messages to the networks, the name uhh... don't recall, but it was a nice fullscreen editor.
And then I used some external editor as well for myself to be able to write all those mails.
But none of them ever showed avatars, so that's interesting.
@PsychoCod3r Yeah, I've stopped keeping track since 1999 or so. My study in a foreign country made that I couldn't manage my BBS at home anymore and then I switched over to the big internet which has kept me occupied ever since.
Still sometimes have a bit of nostalgia to the good ol' BBS times.
@trinsec
BBS's have become somewhat modernized in recent years, though they still have the same look and feel of the 90's.