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Woah, rewind. BBS Have been here for ages, and well developed and matured. Even to this day, you can find people in FidoNet, KOM BSS, WWIVnet, etc.. What killed off BBS was http, and is stupid ass backwards standard. When companies decided to market to ``web'' and give good money for it, people then created HTML like _BBS_, or what I call web forums. In the early days, lisp and perl were most famous languages uses to create the stupid web forums. There was little to no Databases in does days, most things were written in flat files. But when hard drives got cheaper over time, and things grew, then Databases were implemented. Still, the flat file versions were made, even at event new stuff was added. Then came PHP, the cancer that ails the IT world. Then you all those shitty broken ass web forums that you can break with any base function you use, since the scripts were executable by the public. That is the drastic change, allowing the public to execute scripts publicly, and give it information users should not be allowed to yield.
What happed to good old forms, authentication, approval, CPU time and bandwidth conscience. I know, the rich got cocky, and said to its users, Deal_with_it.