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- Creativity Demo Net
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- Creativity DemoNet or shortly CDN is a nowadays a quite common sight
- among BBS'es that are oriented towards demos. But what exactly is CDN?
-
- The idea behind The Creativity Demo Net(work) is now almost a year
- old. I had been dreaming about having a way to communicate electronically
- between different demogroups. When we (Future Crew) attended Megaleif
- Easter Party last easter in Uppsala, Sweden I was positively surprised
- when I found out that Mirage / Cascada had also been thinking about
- the same thing. We both thought that it was a good idea and began
- developing it.
-
- But it didn't work out as we intended. There were a lot of difficulties,
- in Sweden and in here Finland. At first we tried to spread the net via FidoNet,
- but soon it came clear to us that demogroups needed their own net. The
- same time I had been also talking with Trojaner (SysOp of Skull's Southern
- Germany HQ) and he was also inspired by this idea. We decided that Skull
- and Future Crew wouldn't be enough to start a new net with, so I contacted
- Arjan Pool (who had relations with DCE) and he also thought that the idea
- was just great. And we got underway.
-
- At first the net was called just plainly DemoNet, but it was almost
- immediately changed to Creativity Demo Net (for some reason even I yet don't
- know =)). Anyway, at first it was planned that StarPort would become
- the World HQ, but as Arjan wanted to take the job and all the big
- responsibilities, Arco BBS became the WHQ (and still is). Much of
- the coming success of CDN was based on Arjan's continuing hard work for CDN.
-
- The net started working in August 1992, four months after the first idea
- about a demonet had come to me. And after that net has spreaded like a
- wildfire! At first CDN spanned only 3 countries (Finland, Holland and Germany)
- but soon Sweden joined in, and then country after country and bbs after bbs
- joined in. To this date (2.3.1993) CDN spans the following countries:
- Finland, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, England, Italy,
- Turkey, Belgium, Canada, USA and Australia. THAT'S 14 COUNTRIES!
- And there are about 85 nodes in CDN, all BBS's that are demogroup's
- BBS'es. Considering the small amount of demogroup BBS'es, I would estimate
- that about 65% of all demogroup BBS are connected to CDN and all of the biggest
- groups like FC, Skull, DCE, Cascada etc are connected to the net.
-
- So what kind of echoes does CDN carry? Well here is the complete list of
- echomail areas:
-
- * 1. CDN.4ALL
- The area for everyone in CDN
- * 2. CDN.ANNOUNCE
- Made a new demo ? announce it overhere.
- * 3. CDN.DISKMAG
- All information about diskmagazines
- % 4. CDN.CHAT
- All chatting with other members
- % 5. CDN.PROGRAMMING
- For help with programming problems
- % 6. CDN.GFX
- For all graphics makers
- % 7. CDN.MUSIC
- MIDI/MOD/MUSIC help and questions
- S 8. CDN.TEST
- Test area
- ! 9. CDN.INTERGROUP
- For selected groups within CDN
- S 10. CDN.SYSOP
- Sysops CDN only
- H 11. CDN.HQ_HOST
- For mail between HOSTS versus HQ
-
- * - for everyone who gets
- connected to a BBS
- % - for registered persons
- (demogroup members)
- S - only for CDN sysops
- H - only hosts and HQ
- ! - for special selected groups
-
- CDN has areas for relaxed talk between people (and it gets QUITE
- relaxed sometimes, and QUITE weird =), but it's just fun!), and for
- serious purposes such as programming.
-
- And what does CDN require from a BBS? Well, the first and MOST
- important requirement is that the BBS is some demogroups (preferably an
- active one) BBS. That is rule that there are only few exceptions from.
- But otherwise, you just have to:
-
- - place the completed files of the CDN on his/her BBS that everyone can download them.
- - use the CDN nodelist and it's updates.
- - connect to every area available to them.
-
- Not too many rules... And that is because we want CDN to be fun,
- not some playground for idiots with a lawbook for brains.
- Also, there are ABSOLUTELY no charges in CDN, so the only costs you have to
- pay are your own phonebills.
-
- You can FREQ more info about from for example the WHQ under the magic name
- CDNINFO. So, get more info now if you are interested in joining in!
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- =ABYSS- / Future Crew
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