> > I've put it up temporarily as a secret page on bbsdirectory, but be
> > warned that it's largely unfinished and filled with glaring holes
> > https://bbsdirectory.neocities.org/timeline/index.html
> wtf is reikonch?! why is it so old?
- https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/霊魂ch
- https://web.archive.org/web/20151017233215/http://www2.plala.or.jp/tanpui/ghost1.htm
- https://web.archive.org/web/20011007020222/http://www.belltown.co.jp/joe/side06/s_tw1002.html
It means "Soul/Spirit Channel", and they were based out of NIFTY-
Serve's "CB Simulator" service (NIFTY-Serve was the Japanese version of
CompuServe, and the CB Simulator service simulated the experience you
get with CB radio. CB radio was somewhat of an analog precursor to
things like IRC in many ways - people used it to meet/chat to random
people from their bedrooms)
On a certain channel of that service on a certain time each week,
everyone would use the same handle (which I believe was 霊魂, reikon/
soul/spirit), effectively making them anonymous. According to the above
wiki page, this was supposedly the first community to do something like
that
They had distinctive kaomoji too: ＼（ﾟ▽ﾟ）／ and ＼（ﾟ△ﾟ）／
In 1997, an ID-reveal feature was added to the service, and after that
Reikon channel slowly faded into obscurity. The CB Simulator service
was discontinued in 2005
Apparently they were discussed a lot on early Ayashii World and 2ch,
and Reikon channel users played some involvement in shaping those
communities in their early days, but these days they're rarely
mentioned and are almost completely forgotten (;´Д`)
Reference: 2021/10/26(Tue) 16:00:17