A History of BoyChat by Alexis (Technical Committee)

The Formation of the BC Technical Committee Here is Bonzo's description of the formation of the BoyChat Technical Committee and how it metamorphosed into the Steering Committee: In late March '97 I established a web server account in order to develop & test server-resident software. To teach myself CGI/Perl programming I chose to tackle 2 real-life BC problems: the script monster and nick imposters. I emailed a handful of BC regulars [maybe 7 or 8] to check out my test board and discuss possible solutions for these 2 problems. Those I invited were chosen because their BC posts had impressed me with their technical knowledge. All but 2 posted to my board, and I half-jokingly notified each respondent that he had thereby become a member of the BC technical committee. The name stuck. On May 6, Jim emailed me asking if my test board could be used as a forum for a larger group to address both short & long term solutions to the Digiweb 'dump'. I said yes; soon others were invited & you know the rest. Back to History of BoyChat