Bulletin Board System

Learn about the popular fad of Bulletin Board System and Telnet BBSes

The Once Popular Fad of Bulletin Board System is Kaput!

A bulletin board system was a computer server running software that allowed users to connect to the system using a terminal program. We once ran a very popular bulletin board system using Telegard, with a 56k modem. The BBS was linked to the once popular FidoNet message system and it was fun. The fad quickly faded away into history as more people fell in love with the Internet. Then you had the classic BBS door games like TradeWars, Legend of the Red Dragon, etc. If you like more information on this topic, check out "The BBS Corner & Telnet BBS Guide Discussion Group" on Facebook.

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Telnet BBS Guide

The Telnet BBS Guide focuses Bulletin Board Systems – the original Social Network, serving the BBS community for over 25 years!

Sysops' Corner

Synchronet BBS Fansite - this site is for fans of the best BBS software, "Synchronet".
The BBS Corner – the only website that offers information on Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) for both the BBS System Operator (SysOp) and the BBS User.
The Renegade BBS website http://www.rgbbs.info.

Join The Fediverse

An alternative to BBSes, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube...
Join Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/serversJoin Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform.Join Peertube: https://joinpeertube.org/Join PixelFed: https://pixelfed.org/servers

Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse.
https://fedi.directory is a list of interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

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