Why would a faceless person with no space want a facebook or myspace clone?
NNTP access to the forums would be nice, since that allows the use of any old news reader. And there are a few good ones available for System 7 (and I think System 6), not to mention Unix (if you use a unix shell to do stuff, as I do). And Windows. And MS-DOS. With the appropriate software, you can even have a bridge to QWK message packets, thus allowing you to read messages offline on an Apple II (or was it IIgs). I did the latter with usenet for a while, back in my dialup days.
The other thing is that phpBB supports some sort of theming. It would probably be possible to make a theme that is dead simple for an old browser to parse. That would mean things like getting rid of gratuitous graphics (e.g. buttons that are just links anyway), getting rid of avatars and extraneous user information (user information doesn't really slow things down, but it makes it harder to read on small screens), getting rid of signatures (same as above, actually I think phpBB allows you to have this as a user preference), and replacing the table that the messages are embedded in with something more linear.
It would also make it easier to develop software to parse it and present it in a newsreader.
NNTP access to the forums would be nice, since that allows the use of any old news reader. And there are a few good ones available for System 7 (and I think System 6), not to mention Unix (if you use a unix shell to do stuff, as I do). And Windows. And MS-DOS. With the appropriate software, you can even have a bridge to QWK message packets, thus allowing you to read messages offline on an Apple II (or was it IIgs). I did the latter with usenet for a while, back in my dialup days.
The other thing is that phpBB supports some sort of theming. It would probably be possible to make a theme that is dead simple for an old browser to parse. That would mean things like getting rid of gratuitous graphics (e.g. buttons that are just links anyway), getting rid of avatars and extraneous user information (user information doesn't really slow things down, but it makes it harder to read on small screens), getting rid of signatures (same as above, actually I think phpBB allows you to have this as a user preference), and replacing the table that the messages are embedded in with something more linear.
It would also make it easier to develop software to parse it and present it in a newsreader.