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  • Hello from Canada!

    From Mathpunk to All on Sun Nov 30 07:16:43 2025
    Hiya all! My name is Mathpunk. This is my first time on a BBS - I was too young to experience them in their heyday. I've been exploring the small/slow internet for a couple years now, and I found Magnum via a thread on the tildeverse BBJ. All of this is very new to me, but I've been having a lot of fun exploring! Hello from Canada!

    Mathpunk
  • From Keyop to Mathpunk on Mon Dec 1 00:48:53 2025
    Re: Hello from Canada!
    By: Mathpunk to All on Sun Nov 30 2025 07:16:43

    Hiya all! My name is Mathpunk. This is my first time on a BBS - I was too young to experience them in their heyday. I've been exploring the small/slow internet for a couple years now, and I found Magnum via
    a
    thread on the tildeverse BBJ. All of this is very new to me, but I've been having a lot of fun exploring! Hello from Canada!

    Hi and welcome to Magnum BBS :)

    I've only been to Canada once - to Toronto. I must get around to exploring more of Canada in the future.

    Re the BBS, feel free to explore - the mail areas, chat and door games are quite popular :)

    K
  • From Bob Worm to Mathpunk on Mon Dec 1 21:23:01 2025
    Re: Hello from Canada!
    By: Mathpunk to All on Sun Nov 30 2025 07:16:43

    Hi, Mathpunk.

    This is my first time on a BBS

    Welcome - hopefully you found it interesting and you'll connect back :)

    I've been exploring the small/slow
    internet for a couple years now

    Oh, right - what are your favourite small / slow internet destinations? I often rack my brain trying to think what new and interesting things could be brought to text mode or at least low graphics media. I wonder if anyone has a Meshtastic feed on their BBS?

    Anyway, aside from the conversations going on in the echoes / message bases, I like word games so I hit Wordle and Bubble Boggle basically every day. There's also the multi-relay chat facility here which, although quiet a lot of the week, gets really busy on Saturday evenings UK time, I guess middle of the afternoon for you?

    Hope to hear from you soon.

    BobW
  • From Mathpunk to Bob Worm on Tue Dec 2 06:58:41 2025
    Re: Hello from Canada!
    By: Bob Worm to Mathpunk on Mon Dec 01 2025 21:23:01

    Welcome - hopefully you found it interesting and you'll connect back :)
    I've enjoyed exploring so far!

    Oh, right - what are your favourite small / slow internet destinations? I often rack my brain trying to think what new and interesting things could be brought to text mode or at least
    low
    graphics media. I wonder if anyone has a Meshtastic feed on their BBS?
    I've been spending the majority of my internet time on pubnixes like tilde.team and SDF. I really like the community there. I haven't explored gemini or gopher as much as I'd like to, but I've been on the lookout for creative writing like Ferenbrooke (gemini://ferenbrooke.com) or Cosmic Voyage (gemini://cosmic.voyage). I want to post my own writing someday, and I even put a couple poems up in 2023, but I haven't had as much time to write as I'd like.

    Anyway, aside from the conversations going on in the echoes / message bases, I like word games so I hit Wordle and Bubble Boggle basically every day. There's also the multi-relay chat
    facility here which, although quiet a lot of the week, gets really busy on Saturday evenings UK time, I guess middle of the afternoon for you?
    Yeah, I'm about 6 hours behind y'all. I was going to look at more of the games, but I've been enthralled by synchronet minesweeper, which is funny, because I was never particularly interested in minesweeper before.
  • From Bob Worm to Mathpunk on Tue Dec 2 17:09:49 2025
    Re: Hello from Canada!
    By: Mathpunk to Bob Worm on Tue Dec 02 2025 06:58:41

    Hi, Mathpunk.

    I've been enthralled by synchronet minesweeper, which is funny,
    because I was never particularly interested in minesweeper before.

    I have mixed feelings about that door game. I do enjoy playing it but usually when I dig up a mine it's because I've mixed up the "d" and "f" keys, what with being right next to each other and controlled by the left hand. So that gets a bit frustrating sometimes! I wish they'd picked space to dig, then I wouldn't second guess myself all the time.

    The sysop of BeeBS was telling me about tilde, I have never tried it myself. I guess I'm missing out on some good stuff.

    BobW