Our website would like to use cookies to store information on your computer. You may delete and block all cookies from this site, but parts of the site will not work as a result. Find out more about how we use cookies.

Login or Register

Powered by
Powered by Novacaster
 
CIX
by Simon at 16:08 29/01/07 (Forum::Online Communities)
Founded in the late 80s as a dialup BBS and now available via dialup, telnet, OLR and the web, the Compulink Information eXchange is one of the longest surviving UK-based online communities around.

It's still going strong today with over 10000 members.

In the days of expensive phone calls CIXen seeking to avoid the 'lion noise', dropped lines and 'greek' connections associated with early modem comms developed several rich client applications dubbed 'OLRs' (Off Line Readers).

The apps provided a means to batch up and download messages for reading 'offline', coupled with the facility to compose replies for later batch upload - hugely increasing the usability of the system.

There is a private discussion area on this site where people who've had CIX accounts can chat with each other. See the group description for more info.

--
simon

<< Dipex.org
Printer Version