Telnet Address: dura-bbs.net:6359 BBSes running on vintage hardware have been popping up frequently these days—especially thanks to new technology that allows them to connect to the internet.

To call BBSes, I first used our family's generic 386 PC running MS-DOS—chiefly my brother's computer, and that began to annoy him because he wanted to use it for programming and gaming.

I was just looking for Wayne Bell, creator of the WWIV BBS system, and I found this list of 508 area code BBSes complete with notes from the original sysops. I was on the 614 area code myself, so ...

BBSes gave birth to a strange world and subculture, more clandestine than the early internet, with computer literate users providing a framework for the way online communication is still carried ...

BBSes once numbered in the tens of thousands in North America. These mostly text-based, hobbyist-run services played a huge part in the online landscape of the 1980s and ‘90s.

BBSes are back, bbs. IEEE Spectrum wrote about running an old-school bulletin-board system (BBS) from a Raspberry Pi 3 over LoRa, using the off-grid mesh-networking capabilities of Meshtastic, and ...

Suess died in 2019, and with the passing of both BBS originators, we find ourselves at the symbolic end of an era, although many BBSes still run today. These are typically piped through the ...

It's a sad week if you've ever posted on a social network or an internet forum. Randy Suess, the creator of the software for first online public bulletin board, died on December 10th at the age of ...