that of facilitating communication between adults, on a variety of topics (hence the separate forums). It even works on Lynx - a text-only reader which can be run from DOS and maybe a few other OSs.

I believe you might be confusing as 'features' - the prettifying stuff of one's chosen reading environment: wallpaper, wrappers er 'skins' and the like.

Oh no, I know the difference. :) By features, I didn't mean anything like that, I meant ASCII, which was a DOS based thing used on most old BBS's (Bulletin Board Systems), and it didn't have anything to do with graphics, only with facilliating communication between adults just like this board.

It was also run from DOS, using Telix or some other terminal program, and was pretty much all text except for ASCII graphics (explained below better, I hope). I first accessed it using a Toshiba 8088 Laptop computer that ran nothing but DOS. :)

The features I meant were things like having multiple chat rooms, (all text), in-board E-mail ability, etc... and I wasn't complaining, I just said I was spoiled to it.

It also used ASCII at times to make "pictures" i.e. build pictures out of the old IBM border characters... (Help me, Orion... I don't know how to explain this!) It wasn't about being pretty whatsoever.

Actually these have not much to do with communication of text, and most-all of the features which Scott has provided here - are about simply, getting the display into a form you prefer, for reading that which you decided might be worth reading. It's fast - partly because of such good planning and because of the expertise of Greg Folkert - who now hosts the whole schmeer, right-shifts and all. And of course - there are NO ADS. That's (just part of) why Things Just Work.

Exactly, and that's why I like Scott's board, it doesn't worry about the "wallpapers" or "pictures" just the cool headings and buttons and things of necessity to facilitate the posting in the forums, etc. Affinity didn't have any ads either, and was as fast as your modem allowed for. I still use a dial-up modem, a external US Robotics V.92. :)

Also, 'dial-up' modems are not a pregnant means for displays of cute graphics and such (which is why - courtesy suggests that - if you plan to include a graphic within a post via [<src-yada>] it's nice to warn in the Title that you have done so, w/ est. size.) Generally "bandwidth eaters" are thus.. mostly unwelcome - and why links are fine, because you have a Choice. (Always there are exceptions, natch - when something just Fits..)

To my knowledge, I have only ever put two pictures in, and that was when I was "proving" myself here. :) I know diddly squat about pictures, and even less about putting the link into the post... although I did learn if I typed out the URL it becomes a link, right?

I'm not sure how you confused my post to have anything to do with graphics, wallpapers, or any other windows type thing, because I was talking mostly about Affinity, I thought, which was the DOS based one. :)

Anyway, hope I clarified it :)

Nightowl >8#

Thank you Orion!!!!!

That was what I didn't know how to say, and John was too tired to explain right now!

Here is another site for a funny partial Star Wars in ASCII mode:

"Big Star Wars fan? Got a few minutes to spare? Try a telnet to
towel.blinkenlights.nl !

Yep, that's how we viewed the computer world before this web thingie
came along!"

Nightowl >8#