#bbsing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bbsing, aggregated by home.social.
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#BBSing from my local coffee shop, this week. Exploring old and interesting #Telnet destinations. I love that more and more USB-C power is being offered — super convenient for #cyberdecks on the go. (#rgb frontlight for the vibes)
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Image BBS Account Setup On Commodore 64
#ImageBBS #Commodore64 #C64 #BBSing #RetroComputing #ImageBBSOnAStick #CommodoreBBS #joezomby1
https://theoasisbbs.com/image-bbs-account-setup-on-commodore-64/?fsp_sid=6278 -
Image BBS Account Setup On Commodore 64
#ImageBBS #Commodore64 #C64 #BBSing #RetroComputing #ImageBBSOnAStick #CommodoreBBS #joezomby1
https://theoasisbbs.com/image-bbs-account-setup-on-commodore-64/?fsp_sid=6278 -
Image BBS Account Setup On Commodore 64
#ImageBBS #Commodore64 #C64 #BBSing #RetroComputing #ImageBBSOnAStick #CommodoreBBS #joezomby1
https://theoasisbbs.com/image-bbs-account-setup-on-commodore-64/?fsp_sid=6278 -
Image BBS Account Setup On Commodore 64
#ImageBBS #Commodore64 #C64 #BBSing #RetroComputing #ImageBBSOnAStick #CommodoreBBS #joezomby1
https://theoasisbbs.com/image-bbs-account-setup-on-commodore-64/?fsp_sid=6278 -
Image BBS Account Setup On Commodore 64
#ImageBBS #Commodore64 #C64 #BBSing #RetroComputing #ImageBBSOnAStick #CommodoreBBS #joezomby1
https://theoasisbbs.com/image-bbs-account-setup-on-commodore-64/?fsp_sid=6278 -
In the decade after Ward Christensen and Randy Suess created the first BBS, there was a growing tension between commerce and the common good.
BBSes were born in a spirit of openness and sharing, but it wasn't just a hobby anymore, according to folks like Jack Rickard and Phil Becker. It was "an emerging growth industry of unprecedented opportunity."
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/16/business-of-bbsing-ansi-art-and-webcomics-part-4/
#retrocomputing #ansiart #textmode #ansi #bbs #bbsing #computerhistory #history #mastoart #comics #digipres
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In the early 1990s, as BBSes turned into businesses, some sysops and developers started making real money.
Could ANSI artists and publishers do the same?
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/16/business-of-bbsing-ansi-art-and-webcomics-part-4/
Part 4 of my series "ANSI art and webcomics" is here!
#retrocomputing #ansiart #textmode #ansi #bbs #bbsing #computerhistory #history #mastoart #comics #digipres
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Feb. 16, 1978 -- forty eight years ago today -- the first public dial-up bulletin board system or BBS went online.
Wired: "1978: Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launch the first public dialup bulletin board system. The two unleash the kernel of what would eventually spawn the world wide web, countless online messaging systems..."
https://www.wired.com/2010/02/0216cbbs-first-bbs-bulletin-board/
I got my first modem in the summer of 1986, a Prometheus ProModem 1200A (modem on a card) for the Apple II. The first BBS I logged in to was OxGate, an RBBS/RCPM system the phone number of which I still can remember (my earliest BBS software -- firmware-based on that modem card -- had no phone book). I used BBSs avidly until sometime in 1994, when I subscribed to a local ISP's (Widomaker of Williamsburg, VA) dial-up modem-based PPP service that brought TCP/IP to my 486 PC with Windows 3.1. I could then browse the web from home, and that was basically the end of BBSing for me -- for the moment, anyway.
For those interested in experiencing this early form of online community, there are many BBSs online right now, accessible via telnet on systems old and new. I've enjoyed getting back into BBSing this way, especially when using vintage systems to login.
Most any computer can do it, today. Tips on how: https://bytecellar.com/bbsing
#BulletinboardSystem #BBS #BBSing #telnet #dialup #modem #online #terminals #terminalprograms #computinghistory #history #computers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #nostalgia #ATDT #onlineforums #preinternet #internet #communication #RBBS #AppleII #CRT #memories #Wired #tech #technews #technology
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Feb. 16, 1978 -- forty eight years ago today -- the first public dial-up bulletin board system or BBS went online.
Wired: "1978: Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launch the first public dialup bulletin board system. The two unleash the kernel of what would eventually spawn the world wide web, countless online messaging systems..."
https://www.wired.com/2010/02/0216cbbs-first-bbs-bulletin-board/
I got my first modem in the summer of 1986, a Prometheus ProModem 1200A (modem on a card) for the Apple II. The first BBS I logged in to was OxGate, an RBBS/RCPM system the phone number of which I still can remember (my earliest BBS software -- firmware-based on that modem card -- had no phone book). I used BBSs avidly until sometime in 1994, when I subscribed to a local ISP's (Widomaker of Williamsburg, VA) dial-up modem-based PPP service that brought TCP/IP to my 486 PC with Windows 3.1. I could then browse the web from home, and that was basically the end of BBSing for me -- for the moment, anyway.
For those interested in experiencing this early form of online community, there are many BBSs online right now, accessible via telnet on systems old and new. I've enjoyed getting back into BBSing this way, especially when using vintage systems to login.
Most any computer can do it, today. Tips on how: https://bytecellar.com/bbsing
#BulletinboardSystem #BBS #BBSing #telnet #dialup #modem #online #terminals #terminalprograms #computinghistory #history #computers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #nostalgia #ATDT #onlineforums #preinternet #internet #communication #RBBS #AppleII #CRT #memories #Wired #tech #technews #technology
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Feb. 16, 1978 -- forty eight years ago today -- the first public dial-up bulletin board system or BBS went online.
Wired: "1978: Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launch the first public dialup bulletin board system. The two unleash the kernel of what would eventually spawn the world wide web, countless online messaging systems..."
https://www.wired.com/2010/02/0216cbbs-first-bbs-bulletin-board/
I got my first modem in the summer of 1986, a Prometheus ProModem 1200A (modem on a card) for the Apple II. The first BBS I logged in to was OxGate, an RBBS/RCPM system the phone number of which I still can remember (my earliest BBS software -- firmware-based on that modem card -- had no phone book). I used BBSs avidly until sometime in 1994, when I subscribed to a local ISP's (Widomaker of Williamsburg, VA) dial-up modem-based PPP service that brought TCP/IP to my 486 PC with Windows 3.1. I could then browse the web from home, and that was basically the end of BBSing for me -- for the moment, anyway.
For those interested in experiencing this early form of online community, there are many BBSs online right now, accessible via telnet on systems old and new. I've enjoyed getting back into BBSing this way, especially when using vintage systems to login.
Most any computer can do it, today. Tips on how: https://bytecellar.com/bbsing
#BulletinboardSystem #BBS #BBSing #telnet #dialup #modem #online #terminals #terminalprograms #computinghistory #history #computers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #nostalgia #ATDT #onlineforums #preinternet #internet #communication #RBBS #AppleII #CRT #memories #Wired #tech #technews #technology
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Feb. 16, 1978 -- forty eight years ago today -- the first public dial-up bulletin board system or BBS went online.
Wired: "1978: Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launch the first public dialup bulletin board system. The two unleash the kernel of what would eventually spawn the world wide web, countless online messaging systems..."
https://www.wired.com/2010/02/0216cbbs-first-bbs-bulletin-board/
I got my first modem in the summer of 1986, a Prometheus ProModem 1200A (modem on a card) for the Apple II. The first BBS I logged in to was OxGate, an RBBS/RCPM system the phone number of which I still can remember (my earliest BBS software -- firmware-based on that modem card -- had no phone book). I used BBSs avidly until sometime in 1994, when I subscribed to a local ISP's (Widomaker of Williamsburg, VA) dial-up modem-based PPP service that brought TCP/IP to my 486 PC with Windows 3.1. I could then browse the web from home, and that was basically the end of BBSing for me -- for the moment, anyway.
For those interested in experiencing this early form of online community, there are many BBSs online right now, accessible via telnet on systems old and new. I've enjoyed getting back into BBSing this way, especially when using vintage systems to login.
Most any computer can do it, today. Tips on how: https://bytecellar.com/bbsing
#BulletinboardSystem #BBS #BBSing #telnet #dialup #modem #online #terminals #terminalprograms #computinghistory #history #computers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #nostalgia #ATDT #onlineforums #preinternet #internet #communication #RBBS #AppleII #CRT #memories #Wired #tech #technews #technology
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Feb. 16, 1978 -- forty eight years ago today -- the first public dial-up bulletin board system or BBS went online.
Wired: "1978: Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launch the first public dialup bulletin board system. The two unleash the kernel of what would eventually spawn the world wide web, countless online messaging systems..."
https://www.wired.com/2010/02/0216cbbs-first-bbs-bulletin-board/
I got my first modem in the summer of 1986, a Prometheus ProModem 1200A (modem on a card) for the Apple II. The first BBS I logged in to was OxGate, an RBBS/RCPM system the phone number of which I still can remember (my earliest BBS software -- firmware-based on that modem card -- had no phone book). I used BBSs avidly until sometime in 1994, when I subscribed to a local ISP's (Widomaker of Williamsburg, VA) dial-up modem-based PPP service that brought TCP/IP to my 486 PC with Windows 3.1. I could then browse the web from home, and that was basically the end of BBSing for me -- for the moment, anyway.
For those interested in experiencing this early form of online community, there are many BBSs online right now, accessible via telnet on systems old and new. I've enjoyed getting back into BBSing this way, especially when using vintage systems to login.
Most any computer can do it, today. Tips on how: https://bytecellar.com/bbsing
#BulletinboardSystem #BBS #BBSing #telnet #dialup #modem #online #terminals #terminalprograms #computinghistory #history #computers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #nostalgia #ATDT #onlineforums #preinternet #internet #communication #RBBS #AppleII #CRT #memories #Wired #tech #technews #technology
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"Dialed" into the Mac Studio wirelessly across the room for some IRCing on old hardware, here as the snow falls. ❄️
I had to modify the plist and shell config scripts I'd setup on the Mac since "upgrading" to macOS 26 Tahoe to get this working without gripes in the terminal.
#Mac #macOS #terminal #serialterminal #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinginthesnow #AppleII #AppleIIe #MacStudio #ProTerm #BBSing #IRCing #BBS #IRC #WiFi232 #login #telnet #WiFimodem #computers #CRT #floppydrive #ByteCellar #BASH #photo #UNIX
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"Dialed" into the Mac Studio wirelessly across the room for some IRCing on old hardware, here as the snow falls. ❄️
I had to modify the plist and shell config scripts I'd setup on the Mac since "upgrading" to macOS 26 Tahoe to get this working without gripes in the terminal.
#Mac #macOS #terminal #serialterminal #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinginthesnow #AppleII #AppleIIe #MacStudio #ProTerm #BBSing #IRCing #BBS #IRC #WiFi232 #login #telnet #WiFimodem #computers #CRT #floppydrive #ByteCellar #BASH #photo #UNIX
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"Dialed" into the Mac Studio wirelessly across the room for some IRCing on old hardware, here as the snow falls. ❄️
I had to modify the plist and shell config scripts I'd setup on the Mac since "upgrading" to macOS 26 Tahoe to get this working without gripes in the terminal.
#Mac #macOS #terminal #serialterminal #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinginthesnow #AppleII #AppleIIe #MacStudio #ProTerm #BBSing #IRCing #BBS #IRC #WiFi232 #login #telnet #WiFimodem #computers #CRT #floppydrive #ByteCellar #BASH #photo #UNIX
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"Dialed" into the Mac Studio wirelessly across the room for some IRCing on old hardware, here as the snow falls. ❄️
I had to modify the plist and shell config scripts I'd setup on the Mac since "upgrading" to macOS 26 Tahoe to get this working without gripes in the terminal.
#Mac #macOS #terminal #serialterminal #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinginthesnow #AppleII #AppleIIe #MacStudio #ProTerm #BBSing #IRCing #BBS #IRC #WiFi232 #login #telnet #WiFimodem #computers #CRT #floppydrive #ByteCellar #BASH #photo #UNIX
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"Dialed" into the Mac Studio wirelessly across the room for some IRCing on old hardware, here as the snow falls. ❄️
I had to modify the plist and shell config scripts I'd setup on the Mac since "upgrading" to macOS 26 Tahoe to get this working without gripes in the terminal.
#Mac #macOS #terminal #serialterminal #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinginthesnow #AppleII #AppleIIe #MacStudio #ProTerm #BBSing #IRCing #BBS #IRC #WiFi232 #login #telnet #WiFimodem #computers #CRT #floppydrive #ByteCellar #BASH #photo #UNIX
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DCTelnet Amiga BBS Gets a Fresh v1.7 Release for Classic Hardware
#Amiga #AmigaBBS #Telnet #ZModem #RetroComputing #Aminet #AmigaOS #CommodoreAmiga #BBSing
https://theoasisbbs.com/dctelnet-amiga-bbs-gets-a-fresh-v1-7-release-for-classic-hardware/?fsp_sid=596 -
DCTelnet Amiga BBS Gets a Fresh v1.7 Release for Classic Hardware
#Amiga #AmigaBBS #Telnet #ZModem #RetroComputing #Aminet #AmigaOS #CommodoreAmiga #BBSing
https://theoasisbbs.com/dctelnet-amiga-bbs-gets-a-fresh-v1-7-release-for-classic-hardware/?fsp_sid=596 -
DCTelnet Amiga BBS Gets a Fresh v1.7 Release for Classic Hardware
#Amiga #AmigaBBS #Telnet #ZModem #RetroComputing #Aminet #AmigaOS #CommodoreAmiga #BBSing
https://theoasisbbs.com/dctelnet-amiga-bbs-gets-a-fresh-v1-7-release-for-classic-hardware/?fsp_sid=596 -
DCTelnet Amiga BBS Gets a Fresh v1.7 Release for Classic Hardware
#Amiga #AmigaBBS #Telnet #ZModem #RetroComputing #Aminet #AmigaOS #CommodoreAmiga #BBSing
https://theoasisbbs.com/dctelnet-amiga-bbs-gets-a-fresh-v1-7-release-for-classic-hardware/?fsp_sid=596 -
DCTelnet Amiga BBS Gets a Fresh v1.7 Release for Classic Hardware
#Amiga #AmigaBBS #Telnet #ZModem #RetroComputing #Aminet #AmigaOS #CommodoreAmiga #BBSing
https://theoasisbbs.com/dctelnet-amiga-bbs-gets-a-fresh-v1-7-release-for-classic-hardware/?fsp_sid=596 -
It's snowing outside, so...good time for some BBSing.
https://bytecellar.com/2022/01/11/bbsing-in-the-snow-is-the-best-way-to-log-in/
#BBS #BBSing #BulletinBoards #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #dialup #telnet #internet #tech #vintagetech #blog #blogpost #techblog #nostalgia #AppleII #CRT
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Digging for #ezines on End Of The Line BBS
#BBS #BBSing #netrunner #computers #bulletinboards #retrocomputing #ANSI #ASCII #ansiart #asciiart #art ##retro #vintage #fanzines #magazines #zines #textfiles #readers
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Digging for #ezines on End Of The Line BBS
#BBS #BBSing #netrunner #computers #bulletinboards #retrocomputing #ANSI #ASCII #ansiart #asciiart #art ##retro #vintage #fanzines #magazines #zines #textfiles #readers
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Digging for #ezines on End Of The Line BBS
#BBS #BBSing #netrunner #computers #bulletinboards #retrocomputing #ANSI #ASCII #ansiart #asciiart #art ##retro #vintage #fanzines #magazines #zines #textfiles #readers
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#Retro geeks.. #tech #BBS #BBSing
Check Constructive Chaos BBS
https://conchaos.synchro.net/ @codefenix Tour Op.#msdos #desqview #desqviewx #multitask #unix #xwindows #oldcomputers #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #history #geek #bulletinboards #dovenet
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#Retro geeks.. #tech #BBS #BBSing
Check Constructive Chaos BBS
https://conchaos.synchro.net/ @codefenix Tour Op.#msdos #desqview #desqviewx #multitask #unix #xwindows #oldcomputers #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #history #geek #bulletinboards #dovenet
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#Retro geeks.. #tech #BBS #BBSing
Check Constructive Chaos BBS
https://conchaos.synchro.net/ @codefenix Tour Op.#msdos #desqview #desqviewx #multitask #unix #xwindows #oldcomputers #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #history #geek #bulletinboards #dovenet
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ah yes, before we posted pictures of food we had to simply describe it
i absolutely remember that room
Citadels attracted a mature literate crowd, a clear forerunner to modern twitter-like micro-blogging, that none the less reveled in irrelevant shitposting 😆
from a eulogy for three citadels by Michael Finley of the St. Paul Pioneer Press circa 1996?? now there's something to track down a scan of
https://lwr.wtf/citadel/Newsletters/news9604.html
so there you go, from top of the world in the early 90s, to rapid death around '96 along with the rest of the BBS scene...
as the large for-profit multi-line boards pivoted to full ISP service, the amateur sysops looked at their phone bills and began eyeballing DSL connections instead of second phone lines...
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
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A few big names even ran Citadels
hometown hero PC Tech Inc ran a Citadel-86 before being absorbed into Zeos/Micron (and still has a Minneapolis office!)
Atari Corp ran a STadel circa 1988!
Bad Sector became Visi.com, a pivotal early Twin Cities ISP, and long since absorbed into god knows what...
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
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@orc (hi!) famously implemented a UUCP gateway for STadel, bringing usenet groups (and email?) into CitaNet for a time, but got in to a bit of a row with Hue Jr and had left the 612 scene by the time i got online in 1994
a CitaNet overview, from December 1992
the original Test System, run by Hue Jr in Minneapolis was the beating heart of the CitaNet
i often called it as it was a good place to pick up most of the networked rooms 😀
a good ~25 nodes in MN alone
maybe half were still running in `94 and memories are shaking loose of a number of them...
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
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there's a stash of CitaNews at https://lwr.wtf/wiki/Newsletters
Citadel history thread LETS GO!
been racking my brain trying to remember what all the networked rooms were, here's a list from an amiga board in August 1991
Citadel style BBSs may not have been that popular overall, but they maintained pockets of rabid popularity in a variety of major cities
Citadel-86 gained its own federated networking as early as 1986, (a mere few years after FidoNet began!) quickly becoming a mainstay of many Citadel BBSs
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
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Citadel-86 v3.49-hax deployed live 🫡
has Y2K fix, removed some pauses waiting for old modems which are not necessary in emulation, and i've got it idling using HLT, which keeps it from burning CPU in VMs new and old, such as a Win95 dos window 😀
connect via ssh to [email protected]
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
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for how many retro BBSs are out there now, maybe two of them are Citadel?
doing my part, and attempting to resurrect Citadel-86, widely used in its (and my) hometown of the Minneapolis 612 and beyond, and root of many later Citadel forks
does anyone out there remember these?
tell me your stories because they are rapidly being lost to internet decay
did you notice bbsmates is gone?
Citadel-86 is now borderline lost media, the last version is MIA along with some extra tools for database resize and the Ease config tool
does anyone have them? check those dusty floppies
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
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For St. Louisans, March 14 is #314Day! ⚜️ ☎️ 🎉
In celebration, I'm sharing a tiny tech time capsule — a collection of textfiles related to St. Louis-area #BBS networks!
I gathered these 30 years ago when I was cosysop of "Something in the Attic BBS" and seeking to attract more users.
Brace yourself for all manner of capitalization! (PIllowNet, SPORKnet, StupidNET)
Ending "z"s!
And lots of exclamation marks!
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For St. Louisans, March 14 is #314Day! ⚜️ ☎️ 🎉
In celebration, I'm sharing a tiny tech time capsule — a collection of textfiles related to St. Louis-area #BBS networks!
I gathered these 30 years ago when I was cosysop of "Something in the Attic BBS" and seeking to attract more users.
Brace yourself for all manner of capitalization! (PIllowNet, SPORKnet, StupidNET)
Ending "z"s!
And lots of exclamation marks!
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For St. Louisans, March 14 is #314Day! ⚜️ ☎️ 🎉
In celebration, I'm sharing a tiny tech time capsule — a collection of textfiles related to St. Louis-area #BBS networks!
I gathered these 30 years ago when I was cosysop of "Something in the Attic BBS" and seeking to attract more users.
Brace yourself for all manner of capitalization! (PIllowNet, SPORKnet, StupidNET)
Ending "z"s!
And lots of exclamation marks!
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For St. Louisans, March 14 is #314Day! ⚜️ ☎️ 🎉
In celebration, I'm sharing a tiny tech time capsule — a collection of textfiles related to St. Louis-area #BBS networks!
I gathered these 30 years ago when I was cosysop of "Something in the Attic BBS" and seeking to attract more users.
Brace yourself for all manner of capitalization! (PIllowNet, SPORKnet, StupidNET)
Ending "z"s!
And lots of exclamation marks!
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For St. Louisans, March 14 is #314Day! ⚜️ ☎️ 🎉
In celebration, I'm sharing a tiny tech time capsule — a collection of textfiles related to St. Louis-area #BBS networks!
I gathered these 30 years ago when I was cosysop of "Something in the Attic BBS" and seeking to attract more users.
Brace yourself for all manner of capitalization! (PIllowNet, SPORKnet, StupidNET)
Ending "z"s!
And lots of exclamation marks!
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BBSing big with MuffinTerm on the Mac.
#BBS #BBSing #BBSes #MuffinTerm #Mac #dialup #telnet #Apple #MacStudio #LG #LGDualUp #setups #desk #NoMansSky #video #ByteCellar
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BBSing big with MuffinTerm on the Mac.
#BBS #BBSing #BBSes #MuffinTerm #Mac #dialup #telnet #Apple #MacStudio #LG #LGDualUp #setups #desk #NoMansSky #video #ByteCellar
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BBSing big with MuffinTerm on the Mac.
#BBS #BBSing #BBSes #MuffinTerm #Mac #dialup #telnet #Apple #MacStudio #LG #LGDualUp #setups #desk #NoMansSky #video #ByteCellar