Notices tagged with bbs

wondrous Boardwatch BBS magazine "top 100" boards in north america from 1994. this was based on a reader's choice vote-in.

the first two boards are (respectively) the homes of Apogee software and Epic MegaGames shareware publishers.

now just guess how many of the remaining 98 are porn boards!

credit: @fearfair on /r/bbs: https://i.redd.it/5pb1m577m9pd1.jpeg

#shareware #bbs #retroGaming

receipt for the original SDF-1 BBS from 1985. within two years our community would spawn. #bbs #community thanks for supporting us all these years.

On June 16th, 1987 the SDF-1 BBS received its first caller at 300 baud. Happy Birthday to the SDF user community!

#happybirthday #community #bbs #dialup

Synchronet BBS as an #onion node makes #telnet over #Tor a secure protocol because your exit node is the #BBS itself...

Brilliant!

- Synchronet over Tor on an rPi - Marvelous!

But what about those #MS_Windows users out there? How about a gzipped tarball, all nicely packaged up so you can distribute around, of a custom built #PuTTY client that will securely connect people to your #Synchronet_BBS over telnet?

Brilliant!

- Create a custom PuTTY package to distribute for your BBS over Tor - Magnificent!

What was that again? Oh yeah, ... Brilliant!

Enjoy!

#tallship #FOSS #Synchronet #rPi h/t to @dheadshot

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Yo!
Jack the text.

#Commodore #amiga #retrocomputing #BBS #80s

Teenage fantasies, where our minds effortlessly added lifelike visual realism and even spun stories to connect the dots.

#amiga #retrocomputing #commodore #80s #nostalgia #petscii #bbs

Already much better, I can view the full note, hashtags and reaction count.. Still a lot more to do though. :fire_animated:

#misskey #morale #bbs

To celebrate 36 years of SDF we've made a set of 5 postcards from high resolution scans of photos from the 1990s and a screenshot from our Plan 9 server

They are available in our #fundraiser store

https://sdf.org/?store

#support #postcard #history #1990s #bbs #community

#UNIX #BBS #Coconet #RetroComputing

I emailed Brian this morning and this is what he stated.

"Coconut Computing was sold in 1995. The company, and the COCONET HOST, CocoTalk, CocoMedia, and all the other software products are long gone, alas. It’s too bad because it would prove, among many other things, that we invented Emoji more than 11 years before the Japanese company did. If we’d only patented our inventions, we’d be billionaires now. :-)"

- Brian

Who ya gonna call?

#AmigaForever #amiga #commodore #ghostbusters #BBS

@SDF May you donate both to https://icm.museum ??

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #history #bbs

Mentioned working on this awhile back: Humanities Washington just published a short primer I wrote on early queer BBSes, particularly ones within Washington State (there's more info on all of these boards available at the QDHP): https://www.humanities.org/blog/love-acceptance-and-screeching-modems/

Also, if anyone was active on any of these boards, please reach out! I'd love to talk to you.

#lgbtq #queer #queerhistory #BBS #pride #webhistory

Today, 46 Years ago the first #bbs goes online.

On February 16th 1977 in Chicago (IL,USA) Ward
Christensen and Randy Suess are about to finishing the last steps before switching the #CBBS #online.

The CBBS was the first Computerized #bulletin #board #system and would not only mark the Milestone for the Onlineage. It also allowed to invent and grow subcultures like the #demoscene. If your computer had a modem attached to it you could explore the world though it, since you're no longer physical bound to a location to do so.

In the upcoming years of #bbsing the #ansi char set would spark a whole #ArtScene that is still
present and activ today. The #ANSIart Scene. Even the exchange of text messages and files would break out of the local BBS. Tom Jennings created the #fidonet which was no less than a network that spans the world and allows the communication beyond all borders.

If you think about running your own #Mailserver with #ClamAV and #Spamassassin integration, save yourself endless hours of troubles with #Dovecot and #Postfix - just deploy the #CitadelGroupware #Docker container and run one of the most reliable, easy-to-install Mail-, XMPP and Groupware servers in a nutshell!

P.S.: yes, this application has its roots in the legendary #CitadelUX #BBS server of the 1980s and 1990s and since then has evolved into a web-based Mailserver / Groupware system.

https://www.citadel.org/docker.html