Gosh. I had forgotten what the QWK reader was called. Blue Wave’s UI is burned into my childhood memories. Thanks for the nostalgia :)

I at one point had {COMMO} custom auto-scripts set up to dial scan all 300 local BBSes each night, auto-login and grab their QWKmail packets, and then drop into Blue Wave so I could read through all the forums whenever I eventually woke up with key imprints on my forehead while waiting for the dialer. Best forums experience ever, lifetime to date.

QWK mail was what RSS could have become if phpBB had implemented two-way messaging over RSS rather than one-way: you download the RSS forums packet and then you upload your RSS replies packet, and use a reader app to track all your forums so that you can work through your reading and writing queue while offline and it all just worked, no drama and only 1 GET and 1 POST necessary per site per day to stay connected to all of them :)

Blue Wave? I'll reply with: BlueBEEP.

If you know what it is, you know what it is.

Did you see those windowlings hovering over the background and casting a shadow? Later user interfaces may have had more pixels, but they never had that coolness.