Screenshot of the T.A.G. BBS software's waiting-for-caller screen for Sound Bytes BBS, captured here running in DosBox from a very old backup.

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   Autumn Mahoney (autumn@tech.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 16-Dec-2022 02:35:38 JST Autumn Mahoney

   I found this backup tape while sorting through boxes — the final resting place of Sound Bytes BBS.

   Turns out I can still fire it up in DOSBox and browse through everything as a time capsule.

   Though the farewell message suggests the BBS would return in summer of 1996, the world moved on quickly, and the BBS scene — as it was — disappeared just like *that*.

   By the time 1996 did roll around, we were busy building our area's first dial-up ISP, and there was no turning back.

   #bbs #retrocomputing