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8 unusual facts about Bulletin Board System


ATASCII

Some Atari-based BBSs exploited this difference by asking the client to hit the "Return" key.

BDWM BBS

BDWM (Simplified Chinese: 北大未名; pinyin: běidà wèimíng;) BBS is the official BBS of Peking University, and it's one of the most popular bulletin board system sites among the universities in China.

Conrad R. Button

Conrad R. Button is a text game programmer who created a series of educational and recreational shareware text adventure titles distributed via BBSs and through Reasonable Solutions catalogs as "Button Games."

Lily Chou-Chou

The BBS on this website is a crucial feature to the plot of the film.

Oric

This software (the first of its type for the Oric series of computers and was indeed one of the early pioneers of home computer communications) enabled the Oric 1 and Atmos to communicate with Prestel (a fore-runner of the Internet-which used Ceefax style graphics), with Bulletin Boards and facilitated the transfer of files from one Oric/Atmos to another, via the public telephone system.

Rickard Ericsson

After managing several BBSs for seven years, in 1996 he created a web community named StajlPlejsm, renamed LunarStorm at the millennium shift.

Shinji Orito

He used to visit a music BBS named Unison-BBS; Orito named his dōjin circle Unison Label after the website, which has since disappeared from the Internet.

Silicon Snake Oil

Although the internet took a diffent path than predicted in Silicon Snake Oil, it does provide a good description of surfing the World Wide Web when Mosaic (web browser) was the only web browser, Gopher (protocol) was used to find documents and the Bulletin board system required users to call another computer's modem.


Dave's own version of Citadel

Dave's own version of Citadel (DOC) is a variant of the Citadel/UX Bulletin board system (BBS) software which was developed specifically to run ISCA BBS in the late 1980s.

David Whatley

Whatley attended McCluer North High School, graduating in 1984, and was involved in the early BBS culture, writing the FRPBBS software for his privately owned company, Deep Pan Software.

DrugWarRant

It has a Bulletin Board System, a blog, and other functions, including a comprehensive guide to the Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Raich, a case dealing with medical marijuana and states' rights.

GT-Power

GT Power is a bulletin board system (BBS) and dial-up telecommunications/terminal application for the DOS family of operating systems.

Invisible Pink Unicorn

The concept was further developed by a group of college students from 1994 to 1995 on the ISCA Telnet-based BBS.

Jim Maxey

Jim Maxey is the founder and president of the most financially successful Bulletin Board System, Event Horizons BBS which, along with most BBSes, became defunct in or around 1995.

McBBS

The program featured all the standard functions of a BBS of the time including file transfers in several competing protocols (XMODEM, YMODEM, YMODEM-G, ZMODEM) provided with the program or as third party software; they connected externally to the main program itself.

Tandy 2000

There was also a BBS based in Texas that had an extensive library of compatible software available for download; neither the BBS nor its web-based descendant is active today.

Tummyrub

Tummyrub is one of the first music bands to distribute their music freely with electronic means through Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) and FidoNet and later on the Internet.

Zeran v. America Online, Inc.

On April 25, 1995, six days after the Oklahoma City bombing, a message was anonymously posted on America Online’s (AOL) "Michigan Military Movement" bulletin board advertising items with slogans glorifying the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.


see also

Adam Internet

In 1989 it transformed into a commercial multi-line TBBS-based bulletin board, which, at the time, was the largest bulletin board system in the southern hemisphere, and for many years was the most popular in Australia.

ESoft

eSoft was founded by Philip L. Becker in 1984 and started out making and selling the TBBS (bulletin board system) initially targeted at RadioShack TRS-80 CP/M machines, but later ported to IBM-PC computers.

Fishingkaki

John Hooi then started funding the site himself and officially registered the domain name Fishingkaki.com and with the help of his friend Viper of Console City, began FishingKaki with a forum based on the PHP Bulletin Board system.

SMTH

SMTH BBS, an influential bulletin board system in China hosted by Tsinghua University

TBBS

The Bread Board System, a DOS based commercial bulletin board system, or