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@Matthias aber was heißt denn "nur in einem Bulletin Board System" ... das war doch viel besser als sich im Internet durch die klickibunti Seiten zu schlagen. 😁
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Back to basics, so with all the web has become, I'm looking at the past, where newsgroups, private BBS and generally isolated sites and systems ruled.
Does anyone have any that are still alive?
#1990internet #newsgroups #bbs #bulletinboardsystem #retrocomputing #electronicprojects -
Color 64 SD2IEC Build Brings Color 64 BBS 8.1a to Commodore 64
#Commodore64 #Commodore128 #Color64 #BBS #SD2IEC #RetroComputing #BulletinBoardSystem #ItchyButtBBS
https://theoasisbbs.com/color-64-sd2iec-build-brings-color-64-bbs-8-1a-to-commodore-64/?fsp_sid=4835 -
Arcadia BBS Story: The Retro Hour Revisits Amiga Piracy
#Amiga #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #BBS #BulletinBoardSystem #TheRetroHour #AmigaScene #ComputerHistory
https://theoasisbbs.com/arcadia-bbs-story-the-retro-hour-revisits-amiga-piracy/?fsp_sid=4720 -
What better way to relax on your Sunday by visting a BBS or few. We have an ever growing BBS Directory and while there why not list your own BBS!
Our BBS DIRECTORY Here:
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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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Serial Number 3!!!!!
Thanks Bucko for building another new version of BBS On A Stick!
https://8bitboyz.com/?s=bbs+on+a+stick+v2.4
#Commodore #c64 #BBS #BulletinBoardSystem #Telenet #Retro -
Happy New Year!!!!!
What better way to start off 2026 than with the yearly update for Image BBS v3.0!
Here is the link to the latest yearly update just realease by X-Tec:
https://8bitboyz.com/download/2025-fixes-for-image-3-0-version-1/ -
Aaron Revives RAMifications: A 1990s Commodore 128 BBS Returns Online
#Commodore128 #BBS #C128 #RetroComputing #TelnetBBS #VintageTechnology #RAMifications #BulletinBoardSystem #CommodoreBBS #RetroBBS
https://theoasisbbs.com/aaron-revives-ramifications-a-1990s-commodore-128-bbs-returns-online/?feed_id=3022&_unique_id=680f7ead93e4c -
American Users Discover Snobsoft BBS – A 40-Year-Old System Still Thriving
#Commodore64 #C64 #BBS #RetroComputing #SnobSoft #VintageTech #80sComputing #BulletinBoardSystem
https://theoasisbbs.com/american-users-discover-snobsoft-bbs-a-40-year-old-system-still-thriving/?feed_id=1779&_unique_id=67b889426efb1 -
A Tour of The Dark Lord’s C-Net 12.0 BBS (1988)
#C64 #Commodore64 #BBS #Sysop #RetroComputing #VintageTech #CNet12 #80sComputing #ClassicMods #BulletinBoardSystem
https://theoasisbbs.com/a-tour-of-the-dark-lords-c-net-12-0-bbs-1988/?feed_id=1591&_unique_id=67ab5960aba47 -
I have updated my BBSing resource page, for anyone with a hankerin' to "dial in" once again.
https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/
#BBS #BBSing #BulletinBoardSystem #terminal #telnet #client #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #nostalgia #dialup #modem #AT #retrocomputers #vintagetech #blog #screenshot #video #SyncTerm #MuffinTerm #ByteCellar
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The Excalibur BBS client had led me down the most crazy rabbit hole in the last week.
It's 16-bit, and not like, good 16 bit so the newest OS that can run it is absolutely ancient: XP.
So I thought, hey, wine can run 16 bit apps! Well, no, wine won't run this particular one.
Then I was like 'I could make a VM and distribute that to people to use it!' and sure, I could and did.
But I found something even more cool: you can just like, do it in your browser instead.
Found a project, v86, which is a bundle of WASM and JS and is basically a subset of QEMU and after far far too much fiddling, breaking stuff, and reading JS code (I do not like JS, I really do not.) I've set up a website that you can literally just load, and instantly up comes a Windows 95 machine with the client running ready for someone to use.
The future is great, especially when you're using it to access the past. #retrocomputing #retropc #bbs #bulletinboardsystem -
A pretty fascinating multi-part look at the IGS BBS protocol (Instant Graphics, later Instant Graphics & Sound) on the Atari ST.
This is part of the #BBS scene that I missed, I must say. By 1990 I was still BBSing full tilt, but had moved off of Atari.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/01/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-1-introduction/
#BBSing #BulletinBoardSystem #dialup #Atari #AtariST #IGS #BBSs #telecommunications #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #TOS #GEM #modems #blog #screenshot
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While I wait on FTN applications to be approved for my Telegard #BBS, I've moved on to some more uh, unique? options that existed.
Excalibur BBS was a very late entry into BBS software, but it's main claim to fame is that it was a fully GUI-based software. Basically, it was sold as a run-your-own-AOL type proposition.
It was unique, neat, and horribly expensive and saw limited use.
It also has a major problem of requiring a proprietary client to do anything, which is, of course, a 16-bit app and not really usable on modern systems.
But VMs exist, and you can run it: Using NT4 for the server and XP for the client you get this lovely chunk of #retrocomputing #bulletinboardsystem history. -
@[email protected] Yeah, I rapidly ran into the 'this hardware will absolutely not survive being used 24/7' problem.
PSU failures, a couple of various chip failures (IDK what it is, but I go through a shocking amount of video cards), and the occasional instability that later gets tracked down to a bad capacitor, or voltage regulator.
You CAN replace all of these parts and everything works fine until the next failure, but man, I'm not sure I'd use old hardware for 24/7 use at this point, unless the goal was to document what and how it fails.
It's also a hard sale when you can get a $50 miniPC off AliExpress and use it to either run old stuff directly OR run old stuff in a VM, and then you get the authentic-ness AND modern hardware's stability.
And yes, I know people would argue that a VM isn't authentic, but after spending yesterday yelling at my ArcaOS VM to stop being stupid and just run the stupid DOS doors it certainly feels authentic. #retrocomputing #bulletinboardsystem #bbs -
@[email protected] went with telegard/2 since that's what I used to run. Its under arcaos which helps with the modernization a lot but its still kinda janky and far less capable and bare-bones than I remembered.
#retrocomputing #bbs #bulletinboardsystem -
@[email protected] that's the goal, heh. The BBS I wish I ran in the 90s but could never have afforded. Only a year into it and almost about to begin to be like uh half done. #retrocomputing #bbs #bulletinboardsystem
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I did not spend the whole day setting up door games on my #bbs, oh my no that's certainly not what happened. #retrocomputing #bbs #bulletinboardsystem #re