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   vga256 (vga256@dialup.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 09:15:34 JST vga256

   just found a treasure trove of extremely obscure BBS history stashed away on IA

   thank you hard-working book scanners for preserving this rarity.

   if you're familiar with BBSing in the 90s, you'll remember just how fast the vast majority of boards disappeared in 1995. it went from multinode 24/7 bbses to disconnected phone numbers in just a few months

   this book accounts for the very small number of BBSes that made the transition from telco-only to "telBBS" or telnettable/web-accessible boards

   3/4 of the book is a carefully curated list of 500 boards with screenshots of their homepages and bbs login/title screens. most importantly, the URLs of these boards is preserved so we have a chance to look them up on WBM some day.

   #bbs #webHistory #smallweb #books

   • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: and Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: repeated this.
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     vga256 (vga256@dialup.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 09:15:34 JST vga256

     in reply to

     and of course, the renowned Software Creations BBS, home of many shareware game publishers like 3d realms, apogee and id software

     #doom #dosgaming

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     Dr. Matt Lee is at hireme.fyi (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 09:33:40 JST Dr. Matt Lee is at hireme.fyi

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     @vga256 will you post the URL to the book?