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  • Happy BBS Day!!

    From k9zw@21:1/224 to All on Thursday, February 16, 2023 06:38:04
    Happy BBS Day!

    On February 16th 1978, that is 45 years agao today, the first BBS went online!

    Checkout BBSDAY.org for more information as we enjoy connectivity that started that nearly 1.5 billion seconds ago!! <grin>

    73

    Steve
    K9ZW

    --- Steve K9ZW via SPOT BBS

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/15 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: SPOT BBS / k9zw (21:1/224)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to k9zw on Friday, February 17, 2023 21:33:33
    On 16 Feb 2023 at 06:38a, k9zw pondered and said...

    Happy BBS Day!

    On February 16th 1978, that is 45 years agao today, the first BBS went online!

    Checkout BBSDAY.org for more information as we enjoy connectivity that started that nearly 1.5 billion seconds ago!! <grin>

    73

    Steve
    K9ZW

    Hey there, cool :)

    Thanks for sharing :)

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to k9zw on Friday, February 17, 2023 11:06:45
    Happy BBS Day!

    On February 16th 1978, that is 45 years agao today, the first BBS went online!

    Checkout BBSDAY.org for more information as we enjoy connectivity that started that nearly 1.5 billion seconds ago!! <grin>

    Don't forget that users can still dial in to that original CBBS software today in 2o23! Check out:

    cbbs.mitsaltair.com:8800

    Its really neat to still login to the software that started it all... happy BBS Day.



    |07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
    |08.........

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)
  • From DustCouncil@21:1/227 to k9zw on Sunday, February 19, 2023 03:21:40
    On February 16th 1978, that is 45 years agao today, the first BBS went online!

    If anyone would like to see an approximation of what this BBS looked like, I wanted to call attention to CBBS/NV at:

    cbbs.mitsaltair.com port 8800

    It's a fascinating little system running on a MITS Altair simulator...on an AWS EC2 instance.

    [S] Stops/Pauses the scroll. You may need that.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Shipwrecks & Shibboleths [San Francisco, CA - USA] (21:1/227)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to DustCouncil on Sunday, February 19, 2023 08:03:00
    DustCouncil wrote to k9zw <=-

    If anyone would like to see an approximation of what this BBS looked
    like, I wanted to call attention to CBBS/NV at:

    cbbs.mitsaltair.com port 8800

    I need to resurrect my FIDO node - I set up fido 12u as a point on my
    system some years back, but forgot how I handled the FOSSIL. I may have
    had to run it under DOSBOX?




    ... I hear he can kill people with an init string.
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From Oli@21:3/102 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, February 19, 2023 20:25:39
    poindexter wrote (2023-02-19):

    I need to resurrect my FIDO node - I set up fido 12u

    Tom Jennings' Fido BBS program? Please resurrect :)

    ⁂

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    * Origin: War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. (21:3/102)