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vga256<p>ANSI art bbs ad found inside of STNT11.ZIP - Stunts v1.1, as released by an unknown piracy group</p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/ansi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ansi</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a></p>
Christoff, the human<p>Who are some folks that are in to <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>C64</span></a> that are catching up on missed experiences from earlier in life? </p><p>I want to connect with you and expand my social circle some more :) </p><p>I previously was a senior/lead programmer, sysadmin, and dba. Now I'm a pentester. </p><p>Going backwards to simpler times and an Internet experience that isn't dominated by a handful of tech fat cats.</p><p>I'm building a BBS having not logged into one in 30 years, and also learning as I go about BBS things and culture. </p><p>I know I'm longing for a time that is long past, but I'm OK with that if you are :)</p>
vga256<p>growing up on the internet story time</p><p>when i was 14 years old, i made my first homepage using my mom's university shell/webspace allotment (5 megs) which was supposed to be for posting homework and email storage</p><p>there was no such thing as a profile pic in 94, but i decided that i should have a photo of me at the top of the page. i inexplicably decided that instead of scanning in a school photo, it made more sense to post a gif of some kid i found on a bbs with Night Owl cd-roms. today, i found that exact photo - it is uncredited sadly - just "boy eating watermelon"</p><p>for my bio, instead of writing about my hobbies and interests, i proceeded to fabricate an entire identity that claimed i was the captain of the volleyball team, a straight-A student, and one of the coolest kids in my school. 0/3 of those things were even close to reality. i figured - hey, who cares? no one's ever gonna see this.</p><p>a year later, my junior high school got its first internet connection - a 28.8k modem shared among 20 macintosh LC's in the lab. my computer ("information processing") teacher decided that our class should learn how to make a web page as a unit project.</p><p>i told him that i had already made a homepage ages ago, and wanted to submit that as my final assignment so i could go play Bolo instead. he asked me to show him the site.</p><p>the entire class crowded around my monitor as it loaded the page a few bytes at a time. i was feeling pretty smug until i saw the straw hat, and realized that the bio was pure bullshit. i tried to turn off the monitor but it was too late - 20 kids and my teacher got to read how this bony kid in front of them was apparently a world class athlete, One Of The Cool Kids, and future valedictorian.</p><p>i deleted the entire site the second i got home 😅 </p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/smolweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smolweb</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/smallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smallWeb</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macintosh</span></a></p>
ltning<p>Yay! Or maybe AIEEE! Seems like I'm giving a talk at <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/eurobsdcon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EuroBSDCon</a> again this year!</p><p>Anyone who has been following me here for a while will know I'm a hopeless <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/retrocomputing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> nerd, and I will make no attempt at hiding it during my talk:</p><p>Dirty Tricks: Using nginx and Lua to thwart bots and skript kiddies</p><p>I'll (try to) show how you can protect your <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/bbs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BBS</a> from drive-by portscans and your production systems from <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/ddos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DDoS</a> attacks using all the wrong tools.</p><p>Dietary warning: may contain traces of floppies.</p><p><a href="https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/talk/review/RHDFBQWZEVC833T3WDLDEXYFQVRWJKMN" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/talk/review/RHDFBQWZEVC833T3WDLDEXYFQVRWJKMN</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/freebsd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeBSD</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/bsd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BSD</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/unix" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unix</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/dos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOS</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/runbsd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunBSD</a></p>
Christoff, the human<p>Called dibs on "NecroNeon BBS" <a href="https://github.com/deadbeefmonster/NecroNeon_BBS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/deadbeefmonster/Nec</span><span class="invisible">roNeon_BBS</span></a></p><p>"Gothic Horror Themed BBS With Neon Highlights"</p><p>Will be a learning experience.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a></p>
Christoff, the human<p>Hey, I'm chasing that early computing life I wasn't able to have myself and was fascinated by, and ultimately what got me into computing and keeps me in computing.</p><p>Not ashamed to admit it. </p><p>- Working on learning to code <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>C64</span></a> assembly and <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/8BitComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>8BitComputing</span></a> in general.<br>- Working on learning exactly all a <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a> actually is and coding one.<br>- Reusing existing skillsets for coding/sysadmin/dba/hacker for it, but in this origin story <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> I never got in its entirety. </p><p>I saw a tape deck at a 2nd hand store the other day and was reminded of a math teacher showing me it could be used for data storage with computers.</p><p>I also feel fortunate that at this stage in my life I'm secure in my career (as much as I can be anyway), so I can relax a little on the hustle of skill improvement solely for work and all that.</p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>The original text from BBS's that changed me, the one true religion:<br><a href="http://www.textfiles.com/occult/ERIS/principi.a" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">textfiles.com/occult/ERIS/prin</span><span class="invisible">cipi.a</span></a></p><p>Nicer book version with art from Loompanics:<br><a href="https://mdhughes.tech/principiadiscordia/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mdhughes.tech/principiadiscord</span><span class="invisible">ia/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/eris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eris</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a></p>
*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱<p>Holy shit!</p><p>TIL that the BBS software that I used to run is still in development and still in use! 🤯</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Synchronet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Synchronet</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DxM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DxM</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.synchro.net" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">synchro.net</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Toni Westbrook<p>Been working on the title screen for "Cloudburst Connection", my BBS themed adventure RPG (build your BBS, call others, talk with your callers - even solve a mystery!). Obviously lots of in-game ANSI screens when calling boards, but decided to also go the ANSI route for the title screen too! Still needs some tweaks but getting there!</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ansiart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ansiart</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/indiegames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiegames</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/adventuregames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adventuregames</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RPG</span></a></p>
SDF.ORG<p>The cake is not a lie.</p><p>Happy Birthday <a href="https://sdf.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sdf.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> !</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/happybirthday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>happybirthday</span></a></p>
SDF.ORG<p>On this day June 16th in 1987 the SDF-1 BBS received its first caller. Happy 38th to the <a href="https://sdf.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sdf.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> community!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a></p>
kurtsh<p>Five GLORIOUS hours documenting the history of the ol' BBS days... from FIDO/PC Board to transfer protocols to ANSI art to PCTalk to Procomm &amp; more! </p><p>(I also have a separate clip re: battle between PKZIP vs ARC!)</p><p>▶️ BBS the Documentary [Full HD]<br><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=nO5vjmDFZaI&amp;si=Cfo9BVUVD_3mI4zk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=nO5vjmDFZa</span><span class="invisible">I&amp;si=Cfo9BVUVD_3mI4zk</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>documentary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genx</span></a></p>
Ice Breaker<p>Saw that <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@amigalove" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>amigalove</span></a></span> tried to login and couldn't because he hadn't called in over 300 days :) I had the threshold set a bit lower than normal because at the time, we had maxed out our userbase of 999 users. Those days are gone I believe, and I've increased it to 2 years. That should help but you still gotta re-register <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@amigalove" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>amigalove</span></a></span> ... :) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a></p>
Wintermute_BBS<p>The icing on the cake: I've just finished my new "welcome" / "greeter" screen.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/WintermuteBBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WintermuteBBS</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MBSEBBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MBSEBBS</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ANSIart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ANSIart</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Telnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Telnet</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Fidonet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fidonet</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Echomail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Echomail</span></a><br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ImpossibleMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImpossibleMission</span></a></p>
Ice Breaker<p>The original author of Hermes BBS for the Macintosh has made the previous versions available, as well as a working serial generator. If you've tried to create a Hermes BBS with externals, you'll understand what a big deal this is. </p><p><a href="https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hermes-bbs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">macintoshgarden.org/apps/herme</span><span class="invisible">s-bbs</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hermes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hermes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macintosh</span></a></p>
Ice Breaker<p>Tomorrow is a big day... why? Because tomorrow is the BBS's...</p><p>33rd Anniversary!</p><p>That's right, we've been sitting around living in the past for over 3 decades.</p><p>Starting off on a Commodore 64 running Image 1.2a, we moved quickly to Cbase 3.1, then DLG for the Amiga, to Renegade for the PC, then to Synchronet, back to Cbase and finally, back to Centipede in 2013 where we're staying!</p><p>Congrats to us! Hopefully we'll be around a bit longer!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
joany<p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/opencloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opencloud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/nextcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nextcloud</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a> ?</p>
Atari BBS<p>It’s a long weekend. Your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> 8-bit is ready to use. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fujinet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fujinet</span></a> is connected, BobTerm is loaded up, and you call <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SouthernAmis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernAmis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a> to relive the days of message bases, downloading warez, and connecting with other Atari A8 enthusiasts. </p><p>www.southernamis.com for all the how-to-connect details.</p><p>This is an advertisement to get you back on a BBS</p>
dirk dierickx<p>ABBS was a popular <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a> server <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> which allowed you to host your own BBS. Development stopped and It was abandoned in 2000, but has now been revived. This is the first new release, now available for download.</p><p><a href="https://docster.itch.io/abbs-for-all" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">docster.itch.io/abbs-for-all</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Martin Rundkvist<p>Thinking about Marcel Bos (1966-2009), the colourful dyslexic poet and digital chaos agent who was legendary on 80s and 90s BBSs inside the Stockholm area code for his passionate, confusing and wildly misspelled screeds.</p><p><a href="https://dmzarkivet.se/pdf/198812.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dmzarkivet.se/pdf/198812.pdf</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.abc80.net/archive/luxor/ABC-bladet/2010-nummer-1.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc80.net/archive/luxor/ABC-bl</span><span class="invisible">adet/2010-nummer-1.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a></p>