Guest Editorial

Fido's Ugly Duckling
with the Funny Web Feet
Douglas Myers 1:270/720 doug@mdtnbbs.com

I got some feedback this week from a strange duck who used to hang around the local net. He didn't leave us like I'd thought... he just moved for a job. But he doesn't walk a straight nodeline following Mother Fido like the rest of us ducklings any more - he's put on some Web feet.

He wrote to let me know that sysops aren't threatening to put up HTML-based bbses as I'd reported... he's doing it now. And some of the other creatures with Web feet are seeing a BBS for the first time, and they're impressed.

He's not alone, of course. Though few BBSes are completely HTML-based right now, access through telenet has been with us for some time. This community is growing and talking about interconnecting through networks a bit kinder to Web feet... and there is a growing perception that Mother Fido is getting old and won't be able to lead her ducklings off the familiar paths she can still see.

To you ugly ducklings out there, I send my wish that Maw Fido consents to have her cataracts removed soon. Removed so that she can see that the pond opens into a big river... removed so that she can know that her ugly ducklings have grown to become graceful swans.

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