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The "Find Your Old BBS Buddies" Database

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the find-'em-and-look-'em-up dept.

sloop writes "Everyone wonders what happened to the old geeks we used to see on the local bulletin boards. With "cool" aliases like Lord Nikon and Zer0 C00l they often can't be found in a phone book. Enter BBSmates, a database of most every published BBS. You can associate yourself with BBS's you were on and find other users." Or you can go on to found a website with one of 'em.

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  1. Fidonews has more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    This one is maybe even better for this: http://www.fidonews.org/

  2. Re:E-mail addresses by morie · · Score: 2, Informative

    It exists. I don't know the name anymore, but my girlfriend uses it for her old university mail, hoping one of her foreign friends will try it once more, since she lost their mailadresses (and communicatuion from the netherlands to mexico by other means is tricky when people have moved).

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  3. Re:BBS outside the USA by kzharv · · Score: 5, Informative

    Whilst I do dislike the US centricity of slashdot sometimes I actually looked for more than 2 seconds on the page and clicked the "Advanced BBS Search" button. Here you can find a Country field, filling only this in with "UK" or "Australia" returns relevant results (few though there might be).
    So yes on the front page it requires US codes (as do alot of forms I am asked to fill in) but they do have a Country option.

  4. FIGURES! by nullvaper · · Score: 5, Informative

    One week after i switch from a professional hosting service with redundant OC3's, i opt for the cheaper solution of hosting the site in my basement on a 144k DSL line. I can't even connect to it now from work, so please.. check back in a couple of days...

    And for those of you saying this is a US-only site, there is a country field (in the advanced search page), however i will add better world-wide support in the near future.

    -nullvalue

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  5. Re:Computer Shopper by nd · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Anyone remember what that BBS game was that involved you taxing peasents and training lords and taking over other people, but you could only play once a day? It was on a whole bunch of BBS's..."

    Exitilus? BRE?

  6. For Sysops... by dtdns · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those of you still running BBSes.. let's not forget the bbs archive where you can find every utility, door game, and bbs package ever created (well, almost).

    Also there is the BBSnet IRC chat server where a lot of BBS authors and sysops, including the current maintainer of LORD, frequently hang out.

  7. For more BBS Stuff... by OrangeHairMan · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's a hell of a lot of text files from the old BBS days at http://www.textfiles.com

    Cheers, Orange