Telnet BBS Guide

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

by mindcrime • 7 years ago

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app4soft2• 7 years ago

There are two[1,2] BBS (in Japanese) related to airplane addons development for YSFlight[0] simulator: first is related to C.K.Packs[3], and second is related to ORANLEED COLLECTION[4]

[0] http://ysflight.org

[1] http://mrsandj.sakura.ne.jp/ht/oranleed/cgi-bin/joyfulckp/jo...

[2] http://mrsandj.sakura.ne.jp/ht/oranleed/cgi-bin/joyfuloran/j...

[3] http://mrsandj.sakura.ne.jp/ht/ckp/

[4] http://mrsandj.sakura.ne.jp/ht/oranleed/

app4soft2• 7 years ago

Link to Telnet BBS Guide > Downloads Lists page[0]

[0] https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/lists/download-list/

digitalni• 7 years ago

Are these still active? How many people actually use them? I'd love to join, as my first internet encounter was in the windows 95 era.

mysterydip• 7 years ago

I know this one is active: https://bbs.fozztexx.com/

zzo38computer• 7 years ago

It is slow, but it works fine. It even detects using xterm with 209x75, with ASCII character set, and allows overriding them if the auto-detection doesn't work (I don't know what other possibilities are supported; maybe PC character set with DOS ANSI.SYS? and presumably also shellinabox, which I have not tried). They support both by telephone and internet; I didn't know they still did that. Also, the menu does not resemble the picture in the web page.

NuSkooler• 7 years ago

There are many active boards, and a lot of activity between them on FTN style networks such as fsxNet and ArakNet.

dleslie• 7 years ago

I still login to a few every week. See you on FidoNet!

ransom1538• 7 years ago

Once this internet fad is over, BBS will return!

codr7• 7 years ago

It took me several years of exposure to see the point of the internet. I had been running my own BBSes for quite a while by then.

We already had email more or less, at least in ways that mattered. And the experience was non-commercial and personal, with operators putting a lot of time and effort into their quirky online worlds.

Some of it's still around if you go look for it, but I can't shake the feeling that we lost something worth keeping.

beamatronic• 7 years ago

I enjoyed BBSing in my youth and appreciate that BBSes are still around. But two factors that are missing today are 1. BBSes were local to me (reflecting the people in my city) and 2. It was “hard” to find then and connect to them.

Fjolsvith2• 7 years ago

I run a hobby BBS, but it is a ghost town, no active users.

Fjolsvith2• 7 years ago

My bbs is telnet://chksmak.cnetbbs.net:2600

classichasclass• 7 years ago

It would be even more fun if you could search for other Telnet BBSes over Telnet.

bane• 7 years ago

If only there was some kind of telnet google that would hunt down telnet bbs's, crawl them and make them searchable.

dmitryminkovsky• 7 years ago

Let me take this opportunity to promote this awesome, free documentary by Jason Scott about BBSs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary. It’s on YouTube. I discovered it in 2005 but only watched it a few years ago. It’s so good. Looking forward to trying BBSs over Telnet.

bontaq• 7 years ago

Huh, I've never used a bbs before and it's very cozy.

cronix• 7 years ago

Wow...a flashback to the 80s! That US Robotics modem was my pride an joy (same one they have pictured, but came out in the early 90s). My first modem was a 300bps, and 2nd was 2400. This was a huge step up, and was painful waiting for BBS's to upgrade their 9600's to get that sweet speed. IIRC, it took about 7 minutes to download a 1.44MB floppy.

imrelaxed• 7 years ago

From what I remember of the 56kpbs days it def took longer than 7 minutes to d/l 1.44mb

crististm• 7 years ago

I remember about 10min/MB

exogeny• 7 years ago

Ah, count me in the nostalgia pool too. Had lots of good times and good friends in the 412/724 BBS scene.

And what a great outlet for creativity! Drawing ANSI, modding Renegade, composing MODs for other people to download. It was great.

pmoriarty• 7 years ago

Anyone interested in this should try to "telnet telehack.com"

It's a simulation of arpanet/usenet from around 1985-1990, which includes 25,000 hosts and BBS's, thousands of files from the era, a collection of adventure and IF games, a working BASIC interpreter with a library of programs to run, simulated historical users, and more.

More information here: http://telehack.com/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telehack

peter_d_sherman• 7 years ago

One of my top ten favorites on HN, ever.

Why? It's history from a time when most people did not have access to the Internet (when there were no commercial ISP's, no fiber or cable to the home that carried digital signals), and BBS's were the only way you communicated electronically with groups of people via a mostly text-based computer...

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