Wow - I felt honored to be seen on the historical BBS list. I don't know how you managed to get the years right (1992-1998), but dang, I'm impressed. Ken, who...
It's a list on Textfiles.com of old BBS numbers and names. It's pretty neat, seeing old familiar BBS' that I used to visit, as well as my own on there. Ken In...
I just realized that my welcome messages used to start off with the same subject... hmmmm... This is a broadcast hello to all who may be reading. I am the...
A lot of people have the same feelings you do, Eric. The last dial-up BBS in my area went down in 2000. Usenet, web message boards and chat rooms don't seem to...
... Hello all out there in byte land..! I was sysop of the very popular Spitfire board AirShow which was located in Connecticut during the late 80's. That WAS...
the bbs community is still alive, albiet smaller than it has ever been, but it is still alive. I still run my bbs, that has been online for 14 years. Most of...
By all means, post it. I discovered this group the other day after a bunch of us on another Yahoo group were reminiscing about our BBS days. Although I don't...
my bbs address is telnet://moe.thebbs.org you will need to get a good telnet terminal, and i suggest mtelnet or netrunner (netrunner does not support file...
Hello all, I too fondly recall the heydays of the BBS's, as that was my introduction to the computer, which then became my hobby which then became my job! 8*)...
... www.nsacom.net/~davatar/bbslist.htm I haven't updated it in several months. Some of the boards are down. However, The Shack and OSUNY are very much alive -...
... An honest question: _why_ oh _why_ did you give him that address? Really, most of us know the boards on that list totally suck. No posts, totally dead, all...
I also work for a former sysop who turned his bbs into a successful business...My bbs is still around ...not well populated but it's still running [Non-text...
KSyster@...
Mar 21, 2003 12:52 pm
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Speaking of ANSI screens... Just for nostalgia's sake, I tracked down an old copy of Zork... And totally forgot about having to have ansi.sys loaded... I'm...
There are a bunch of excalibur bbs's still around. One is orion's place ..most are kept alive by the games.. [Non-text portions of this message have been...
KSyster@...
Mar 21, 2003 1:24 pm
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we will pick this conversation up on a message net some where =] but aren't most bbs's dead and have hardly any posts? ... ...
Good day to all. Just thought I'd share my experiences with many of the BBS's from the 410 area code in Baltimore Maryland. What amazes me the most is the...
... There aren't any message nets worth a damn anymore (Zeronet was okay for awhile, but posting has fallen dramatically). ... Most, yes - but not all. That's...
Just thought I'd chime in here. Gryffyn these days, I was "Griffin" and "The Black Griffin" back then. Someon of you may remember Hangar 18 BBS out of ...
An update! My BBS was lost many years ago, and I thought for sure it was mostly gone, except for a majority of the file areas and a few really old ANSI welcome...
Mine is still running....just a few users but i also saved a lot of the messages in scrabble..sorta interesting to run thru once in a while.. [Non-text...
KSyster@...
Mar 29, 2003 11:53 am
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I really mourn the days of the BBS. I used to run Cybernet 504-1 here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The single line was busy around the clock. I lost all of my...
WOW..I called one in Baton Rouge..I probably have the no. still on my old computer..this one is my backup bbs and I'm not sure if i still have the list... I'll...
KSyster@...
Mar 29, 2003 11:25 pm
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No need to mourn the BBS era. It's not the most popular way to use the web, but there are still BBS' out there that would love to have you. Sharon Aiken runs...
I have tried BBS'es online...but it's just not the same...the technology just hasn't translated well... -D ... From: ACTION To: 80sBBS@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
... What a load of dingo-kidneys. There is nothing fundamentally different between a telnetable board and a dialup board, nor need there necessarily be...
Was the meaning more just not a sense of community? I've got that on my board as the users are pretty much the same ones that called at the beginning. I just...
KSyster@...
Mar 30, 2003 1:02 pm
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Huh? You must have tried web based BBS's then. Connecting to a telnet BBS is no different than connecting to a dial up BBS. ... ...
What the hell is this? You're the second person to tell me that. Don't you read the other messages? Well, for the second time, I'm telling you the technology...
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