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However, to e-mail a user at another board within a WWIV network, the @ sign would be added (similar to an internet e-mail address), followed by the node number. In the case of WWIVnet, node number 1 was a WWIV BBS named Amber, the BBS run by Wayne Bell in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, California. The e-mail address 1@1 on the ...
It was a shareware bulletin board system (BBS) for DOS (and later OS/2) that was conceived by Roland De Graaf in 1990. Written from scratch in QuickBASIC, it developed a loyal following. Originally it was a door for WWIV, but quickly grew into an original BBS concept on its own. By 1993, there were thousands of computers running VBBS around the ...
An early example of product activation was in the MS-DOS program D'Bridge Email System written by Chris Irwin, a commercial network system for BBS users and Fidonet. The program generated a unique serial number which then called the author's BBS via a dialup modem connection. Upon connection, the serial number was validated.
Maximus is a bulletin board system, originally developed by Scott J. Dudley through his company, Lanius Corporation.The software was first written and released for both MS-DOS and OS/2, with later versions supporting 32-bit Windows operating systems.
SMTH BBS – The largest BBS in China, hosted by Tsinghua University; StarDoc 134 – DOS/Linux hybrid test BBS. Running modified ELEBBS software; The Brewers' Witch BBS – Texas-based BBS catering to Pagan and Neopagan discussion and community; TOTSE – Bay Area BBS known for large and often controversial selection of text files and internet ...
PCBoard (PCB) was a bulletin board system (BBS) application first introduced for DOS in 1983 by Fred Clark's Clark Development Company.PCBoard was one of the first commercial BBS packages for DOS systems, and was considered one of the "high end" packages during the rapid expansion of BBS systems in the early 1990s.
Telegard is an early bulletin board system (BBS) software program written for IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS and OS/2.Telegard was written in Pascal with routines written in C++ and assembly language, based on a copy of the WWIV source code.
NIRVANAnet was a dial-up BBS network, started in 1989 in the San Francisco Bay Area, by Joe Russack (also known as Dr. Strangelove, the sysop of Just Say Yes, an early two node BBS), and Jeff Hunter (also known as Taipan Enigma, sysop of the & the Temple of the Screaming Electron), when they linked their existing systems using FidoNet protocol.