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CBBS ("Computerized Bulletin Board System") was a computer program created by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess to allow them and other computer hobbyists to exchange information between each other. [1] [2] [3] In January 1978, Chicago was hit by the Great Blizzard of 1978, which dumped record amounts of snow throughout the Midwest. Among those ...
pcmicro. Plover-NET – early hacker BBS, origins of hacker group Legion of Doom. PTT Bulletin Board System – largest BBS in Taiwan, still the most popular online forum in 2018. Purple Ocean – one of the largest North American Gaming BBS's of in the mid-1980s. Rusty n Edie's BBS – raided by the FBI in 1993 and sued by Playboy in 1997.
A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), [1] is a computer server running software that allowed users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user could perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging ...
ISCABBS. ISCABBS, also known as ISCA, is a bulletin board system ("BBS"), formerly based at the University of Iowa. Dave's own version of Citadel, an early branch of the Citadel/UX BBS software, was developed to run ISCA. Like most Citadels, the focus is almost entirely on conversation among users.
Citadel (software) Citadel is the name of a bulletin board system (BBS) computer program, and of the genre of programs it inspired. Citadels were notable for their room-based structure (see below) and relatively heavy emphasis on messages and conversation as opposed to gaming and files. The first Citadel came online in 1980 [dubious – discuss ...
Mystic was designed to be a spiritual successor to the Renegade (BBS) and Telegard bulletin board systems. Some of the more notable capabilities of Mystic BBS include: Integrated Telnet, SSH, RLogin, FTP, BinkP, HTTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP servers with IPv4 + IPv6 support; Full 5D compliant FidoNet BSO mailer and tosser, including BINKP & FTP mailers
T.A.G. was written in Borland Pascal and is free for business or personal use. The authors considered it fun to give the program away while others tried to charge for BBS programs. [1] The software was a fork from an early version of the WWIV source code.
Telenet. Telenet was an American commercial packet-switched network which went into service in 1975. [1][2] It was the first FCC-licensed public data network in the United States. [3] Various commercial and government interests paid monthly fees for dedicated lines connecting their computers and local networks to this backbone network.