BBS/HTTPD/FTPD/IRCD/NNTPD/imapd/pop3d/smtpd and more

[ChromeFoundry]

1. Out of curiosity...

Why would anyone dial into a BBS system at this stage of technology advancement?
Please don't take this as insulting, I am genuinely interested in why anyone would purposely test their patience with the pain a suffering associated to modems and text-based interfaces. Unless you are accessing "grey information" considered to be unacceptable for mass consumption, and interest in the content would raise suspicions by groups monitoring this type of information sharing - I really cannot grasp a need for this type of system in the 21st century. I was on ARPANET and NSFNET before any corporate presence was allowed. I was a long standing participant of Free-Net until they shut it down. I used to be very comfortable using KERMIT, Z,X and YModem, and could rattle of Hayes AT command strings in my sleep. Those days are long passed and I have recycled that grey matter to contain more useful information, like RegEx match strings and URL Encoded hexadecimal character equivalents.