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    First light of my new Frozen BBS Meshtastic message board.

    It’s not beautiful, but it works.

    Screenshot of a Meshtastic direct message window.<br><br>Sent:<br>Hi!<br><br>Received:<br>Welcome to Frozen BBS!<br>Commands:<br>B : Board list<br>Bn: Enter board #n<br>? : Tell me where I am<br>H : This help<br><br>Sent:<br>B<br><br>Received:<br>Boards:<br>#1 Board Talk: Discussing this<br>BBS itself.<br>#2 Meshtastic: How did we get here?<br>#3 Local: Things happening nearby.<br> Screenshot of a Meshtastic direct message window.<br><br>Sent:<br>B1<br><br>Received:<br>Entering board 1<br><br>Sent:<br>N<br><br>Received:<br>From: !cafebead/FRZB:Frozen BBS<br>At : 2024-11-28T17:43:13<br>Msg: First post.
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    One of my very first non-trivial coding projects was trying to write a BBS for my Commodore 64 so that other people could call my computer like I called theirs. I didn’t get very far.

    Today I played with some of the BBS software people have made for Meshtastic, and they’ve inspired me to try again. So far tonight I’ve learned how to use SQLite and an ORM with Rust. It may never work but I’m having fun trying.