Are there any Computer BBS's left?

[LintBalll]

The non-networked, non-internet, standalone kind. In the late '80s/early '90s they were very popular.

 

[LordMaul]

Nahhhhhhh....

It's called WAREZ!

 

[Igore]

forgive my ignorance but what is "warez"?? have seen it a bunch and don't know what it means. thanx

ig

 

[Cenalian]

Warez: the technical term for "borrowing" software from a person or FTP site, installing it, registering it using the same key as probably 50000000 people before you...

basically, its whats also refered to as "piracy"...

unless its pron, the its not piracy, its fun!!!

 

[gopunk]

well i dunno, warez sounds more like a noun than a verb to me. i think it's a variant of "wares". just like crackz and appz.

 

[Igore]

Cenalian -

thanx for clearing that up for me.

ig

 

[LintBalll]

Yeah, but BBS's of old had message boards, downloads, chat, etc. Usually only one person connected at a time. Maybe two or a few. That's why auto-redial modems used to be such a big thing....

 

[samgau]

Dunno... i think i've telneted to one a few months ago.. in netherlands... some of the more popular ones (of my era ie 95 - 98ish) were, shadow BBS, ISCA BBS, Monolith BBS, Brinta BBS... at its peak ISCA had over 1200 simultaneous users it think... the others were more in the 50-100 simultaneous users.... this brings back a lot of memories...

 

[LintBalll]

We ran a two line BBS on a C64 in the late '80s. Makes you appreciate what we have today....

 

[Ameesh]

over telnet there are many, but running ras killed the idea when internet revolution came around.

 

[goldboyd]

I miss the good ole days of BBSing. I still have my Wildcat 4 box sitting on my book shelf for memories.

 

[LintBalll]

I remember the days of waiting up late at night (when long distance rates were lower), setting my 300 baud modem to autodial, waiting a couple of hours for the other person to hang up, and spending $10 or $20 in long distance money to download Impossible Mission. Thank goodness most BBS's had a daily time limit.

 

[beat mania]

yeah like you don't have better ways to get pr0n nowadays ...