On 24 Mar 2022, MeaTLoTioN said the following...
Many years ago, long before the Internet became, lived an era where some p would run or access bulletin board systems (BBS) and most would use their and dial up to a BBS in order to obtain new software, send/receive message with other people, and generally exist in online communities. The BBS was entirely text mode, you would dial up someone's computer, spend some time looking for, downloading, and sometimes uploading files.
After the Internet became available for the likes of you and me, the gener public, not limited to colleges and universities, a new way of communicati was developed, using Internet protocols, faster, more secure, and multitaskable (I may have just made that word up, but you know what I mean it :P)
The BBS became the Hotline server/client which became KDX server/client, B if you will. This provided a graphical window set way of connecting to a server, transferring files, reading/posting messages, a realtime chat room rooms, even voice chat! All of this was from the beginning encrypted (unle for some reason that was disabled to make things faster due to the tech at the time)... [read more at the link at the bottom]
I played with this a long time ago. I didn't find many out there and when I came back to it a few years later, the Mac client was too outdated and no longer supported with newer versions of Mac OS. I had seena project to try and reverse engineer this and release a new version, but that seems to have vanished as well.
I'll be giving this a try again on Linux and see how well it works. Who knows, maybe we can convince who ever owns it to release the source code so it can be compiled for new versions of the OSes available?
73!
Rich, KB2MOB
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/19 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Radio Freqs & Geeks BBS - Albany, NY (21:1/219)