I Setup an Old-School BBS

[Intrigue]

Well, I went and setup an old school BBS, mainly for nostalgia. I have an Ubuntu 8 box, running Mystic BBS. Also set up Apache, with a Java applet, so you can access it via the web.

I think it's pretty neat, I wish BBS's were still popular. Anybody remember them?

I remember my first computer that my grandmother gave me. It was a Commodore 64 (which was old as dirt at the time, this was 1991, but I was 5, so I was just happy to have a computer). I lived in FL at the time, and would dial into the local BBS's to download cracked games and programs, anarchist cookbook, phreak files, etc. Then I got an Atari ST, which I thought was awesome, at the time. Definitely some fun times.

Which brings me back to why I put this box together.. Nostalgia (and I needed a web/ssh/ftp server).

FWIW, you can see the details here.

[gunga]

I ran a BBS back in the early 90's using renegade/telegard software... together with a friend I also ran a DDial chat system from an Apple IIe with eight 300 baud modems.

[imashooter2]

I started my on line experience at 300 baud as well. My box was a hot rodded Tandy 2000... Aftermarket processor (forget the brand and specs), math coprocessor, 640K RAM, sweet IBM VGA and a 20 Mb hard drive back when you called all your friends over to see your new hard drive!

Remember turning off that bandwidth gobbling ANSI?

I used to check all the exchanges in my phone book to make sure I wasn't going to get any cents per minute charges...

[ReefBlue]

I ran a BBS in NYC with C-Net (commodore 64) software.

Ran it for a couple years with a 300/1200 modem and 3 disk drives.

It did get busy enough that I couldn't get on it sometimes.

[CoyoteJack]

I never ran one but I still recall the days of playing TradeWars on BBS's. Apparently the game has been ported to a windows game server as well as a new company which has a browser based version of it.