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BBS Links Database Back Online

Posted by Hemos on from the blast-from-the-past dept.

leviathan writes "After being down for almost a year, the original BBS Links Database is back in action. Started back in 1999, almost a third of the original entries have been pruned out, and others are in dire need of updating. If you run a BBS related web site, please help us out by adding it to the database, or updating your existing entries."

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  1. And don't forget to visit BBSmates.com by Spy4MS · · Score: 5, Informative

    To hook up with your old friends from BBSing days. I only wish a few of mine would show up. Sigh... Underworld Network Hawaii, where are you?

    Be nice, he's using IIS

  2. Good news by daitengu · · Score: 5, Informative
    The Days of the BBS are not long dead, Fidonet is still alive and kicking, in fact the Zone 1 Nodelist (USA) is growing... Software such as Synchronet is actively developed by the Author again, with a win32 interface, and a Linux port that does everything but play door games. File areas are available via FTP, and Fidonet still has a huge File backbone, My BBS usually recieves about 100 megs of files a week, (sometimes more) with many geared towards games.

    Message areas are not only availible through QWK packets (can be downloaded via FTP as well) but also through NNTP, and Gopher.

    Everyone loves door games as well, and there are many Leages (Inter-BBS) that still run games such as BRE, Falcon's Eye, Arrowbridge, and more.

    So, to all of you who think the BBS got left in the dust with the Modem, think again! :)

  3. Re:Clarification? by Anonymous+Cowrad · · Score: 3, Informative

    Eh, nothing that's going to convince you to start using them.

    I still connect to a few to play TradeWars, L.O.R.D., and other goofy console games. They're not fantastic games by today's standards, but I still dig them.

    Other than games, I don't know what people connect for. textfiles.com takes care of all my old skool textfile cravings, so there's little need for a bbs in that regard.

    Mostly, I think it's just an anachronism. It's nice to fire up a telnet app and get back to your roots.

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    pants ahoy
  4. Re:not /.ed yet... by dtdns · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think the server will be able to handle it.. it's the bandwidth I'm concerned with (only on a T1 here).

  5. Re:FINALLY by Kallahar · · Score: 3, Informative

    Tradewars is still alive and well, I still play a lot by telnetting to twgs.at3000.com

    Travis

  6. Re:FINALLY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    >> And the Internet-connectedness of it all has made it possible for BBS communities to attain

    The Internet-connectedness is what ruins it as a BBS experience. The BBS was a local community phenomenon that was limited by the toll call. You were (virtually) guaranteed to be talking to humans that lived in your physical neighbourhood, back in the BBS days. You only had to sift through a couple dozen messages a day, instead of several thousand. In the old days, BBS picnics and get togethers were quite common. The BBS actually fostered real-world meeting. Now you are talking to strangers thousands of miles away you will probably never meet, and as such the "Internet" BBS will never be as close-knit as the old hometown BBS.