Cornell Community Bulletin Board 2006-07

My project is finally finished. Cornell Community Bulletin Board 2006-07!!

Check it out at: www.oatwich.com
Registration is open.

(It's at my site for now because I haven't found a new host yet).

I'm hoping it will replace Denice Cassaro's listserv, Housing Solutions website (which charges an arm and a leg), willard straight announcement board (which nobody reads)...


Any suggestions?

How is it different from and/or better than Craigslist?

[ithaca.craigslist.org]

No it is different.

My project is tailored for Cornell students (and employees).

We don't want to wade through heaps or irrelevant Ithaca stuff. A lot of townies use craigslist and they don't want to wade through irrelevant Denice Cassaro announcements and students' posts either. Forexample:

"I lost a watch on North Campus today. It's a black timex. If found, please blah blah blah."

But this project is an open web board though. Anyone is welcome to register and post. There won't be any discrimination.

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I am also hoping to migrate all the discussion listservs to the web board (Democrats, Republicans, Hawaii Club, Hillel, Sage Feminists, Chinese, Islam, etc.

So that people with different viewpoints, values, and perspectives can be in the same place. I am trying to bring fragments of Cornell community together (but each group will still have its own separate forum). Without the web board, everybody is very narrow and completely oblivious to what the other groups on campus are doing.

I have been in touch with several major student organizations abuot moving their listservs into web board. They have all been very receptive of the idea so far. Web board allows easier searching and archiving (among many other advantages).

Oat

"I lost a watch on North Campus today. It's a black timex. If found, please blah blah blah."

I thought the John Spencer is Dead board was made so we can write about whatever we want. By the way, I lost a watch somewhere on the third floor of Olin Library in the spring of 2000. I don't remember what it looks like. Has anyone found it?

Seriously, though, for the older people around here, what was college &/or life like before you could procrastinate with emails, websites and message boards?

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Seriously, though, for the older people around here, what was college &/or life like before you could procrastinate with emails, websites and message boards?

Endlessly dreary. Much like life with emails, websites and message boards.

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Seriously, though, for the older people around here, what was college &/or life like before you could procrastinate with emails, websites and message boards?

When I arrived on campus as a freshman in 1987, everybody had e-mail accounts assigned to them. 99% just didn't know it. The rest of us e-mailed - well, each other. The public labs were already wired to BITNET and what was already becoming the internet, so we were able to use "Relay" before it became "Internet Relay Chat," we could already surf and post to Usenet, and we even played Multi-player games via our accounts on a machine called Vax5.

Plus, even before I arrived, Cornell had become the first campus with its own "CWIS" - campus-wide information system - as a precursor to what would later be called a "home page." It was called CUinfo, and you could log into it from any public machine and get a weather forecast, advice from Dear Uncle Ezra, or a department phone number.

In other words, I have no idea what college was like before that stuff.

BORY@CornellA.Bitnet
BORY@CRNLVax5.Bitnet

USENET, VAX5. Those were the days.

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Seriously, though, for the older people around here, what was college &/or life like before you could procrastinate with emails, websites and message boards?

It was a 24/7 party of cheap drugs, quality scotch, great music, and willing partners. When you turned 21, the crystal in your palm turned black, you went to Carousel, and you exploded. This was called graduating.