A BBS developed by two (then three) guys in Belgrade in 1990. Should still work. I used to be the minister of language in the "government" of Civilizacija (subforum). Been there 1990 to the end of its first incarnation; when in december 1994 (or was it 1995?) those guys went entrepreneur, I just followed, because that's exactly what I did the previous year. Stayed until my subscription expired in october 1999. Then in 2005, Škrba and Boća decided I should go back and paid the subscription for me for the next three years. Then we just decided we'd move along and created a mailing list instead, with most of the members of Oldwave group. The other such group is rasejani.
Joška was a regular for a while; Grgi and Sale only occasionally.
The software was written by these 2-3 guys, and since it was way ahead of its time, they had to invent a lot, which created its own namespace, known as dictionary then, which then developed its own slang. The whole of it was forum; it was divided into conferences (nowadays subforums), and then into themes (aka subjects). There were also groups, of up to dozen people, and private messages. On top of that, there was a chat, where you could publicly invite anyone into a private chat, which was then invisible to others.
There was also a lot of space to share files - that's where we got lots of tools and specially virus scanners - and you could also attach a file to any message (conference, group, private).
You could filter out (aka turn off) any conference you didn't want to get messages from. In my case it was whole of sport, classified ads and Amiga, perhaps one more. You could have your own ignore list and put obnoxious people on it, but if others quoted them you'd still see the quotes. However, extensive quoting was very unpopular, because we were mostly on slow speeds, 1200-2400 baud was the norm in those years, later in mid-nineties it got better with 14400, but even when we got 56000 in late nineties, the phone lines or switches were just bad, so it didn't really go over 26000. So trimming quotes was a practice everyone asked from everyone else. On top of that, there was a subscription, where I went for monthly, but there was also a cheaper hourly rate. Not actually cheaper per hour online, but still cheaper in the sum. On top of all that, there was the phone bill, which was steep for us outside of Belgrade. So they had developed an autotransfer app and an offline reader app. The autotransfer would pick new messages and send any that I wrote, including commands to download any files, and disconnect. The reader would then read these new messages, open an editor (I used a clone of RoadRunner aka QE, with a few macros I developed) with selected quotes already in the messages. You could select several blocks, so not necessarily the whole message would be quoted), then when the reply was saved it would get included in the next batch. It all worked swimmingly, and I still have this habit of trimming the quotes; the untrimmed ones, specially in emails, still annoy me, but most of the folks nowadays never went through these thin times, and never cared about the lengths. It's just that the messages get quite unreadable, with all the replies on top, not interspersed as we did then. Practically all sezam folks at rasejani and oldwave still intersperse.
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