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TERMinator - BBS Terminal

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:19:19 +0000

is a modern BBS Terminal emulator built for the retro computing community. Connect to Bulletin Board Systems around the world using Telnet, TelnetS (SSL), and SSH.

Tags: #bbs #retro #ssh #telnet #tools

Netrunner – Convolution BBS

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:06:15 +0000

Finally, an online ‘cyberpunk’ game that comes close to portraying computing as depicted in classic cyberpunk works like Neuromancer by William Gibson. In this game the player is a NetRunner, an arrogant and bold futuristic hacker. Armed with his cyberdeck and an arsenal of offensive, defensive and analysis software he’s ready to invade corporate systems in the grid and raid their credits, for fame and fortune! It’s no cakewalk though! Waiting for the unwary are Intrusion Counter-measures (IC). Machine controlled defenses that can inflict damage to hardware and software, steal the players own credits and even cause… death.

Tags: #bbs #cyberpunk #gaming #netrunner #retro #retrocomputing

QWK Packets and the Muffled Spark : Jason Scott : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:52:57 +0000

A deep dive into the QWK packet - a revolutionary addition to the Bulletin Board Experience of the 1980s - and the ramifications of what it represents in a very changed world.

Tags: #bbs #history #qwk #retro

u/Quick_Butterfly_4571 passionately explains why geeky 80’s kids are confused with ChatGPT : r/bestof

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 19:10:20 +0000

So, it is the vernacular of the first globally connected generation of kids, who — working in tandem and free from constraints, oversight, or rules — developed an epistolary style designed to facilitate belonging by wire to communities that were virtual and spread across the globe. To connect with other lonely oddballs who were thrilled to discuss geeky things. It is the first ever, democratically developed, global, epistolary style and the first consistent style developed in the age of the internet for the internet. We also drew boobs and said vulger things and developed new ways of slinging insults and enraging each other. Like, it wasn't a utopia.

Tags: #bbs #chatgpt #genx #history #internet #retro #writing

Some context on why some 80's kids keep getting mistaken for GPT

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 19:09:04 +0000

So, when you got online, you pulled or copied or saved all your messages, drafted up what was...essentially an essay of a response — trying to anticipate follow up questions or points of confusion. You planned it ahead of time. You studied your ass off to equip yourself with knowledge in the hopes of getting some replies off the same day you read them (it sounds stupid now, but that was fucking incredible — send and receive a letter same day!? Eesh. I am getting old). Also, because communication was fast, but our time was limited, it was more like faster letters at first than it was like texts. It was a horror to waste round trips on misunderstandings — the person you were collaborating with might only get online Wednesday afternoons. If you were ambiguous, you might waste a whole week of progress just by not being clear! So, we were explicit.

Tags: #bbs #chatgpt #genx #history #internet #retro #writing

Doors - SynchroFans

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:22:36 +0000

Released on June 10, 2004 by Rob Jacob. This allows you to register NetRunner with any name and serial number you like. Check out the web version of NetRunner now called MatrixRunner under

Tags: #bbs #doors #netrunner #synchronet

Making WiFi Sound Like Dial-Up Internet | Hackaday

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 23:30:19 +0000

Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to those jumping online in the early days of the Internet. Modern digital connections don’t really have an analog to this, by virtue of being entirely digital. And yet, [Nick Bild] decided to make WiFi audible in a pleasing tribute to the modems of yore.

Tags: #bbs #hacks #retro #wifi

GlyphDrawing.Club -blog

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 03:22:30 +0000

In my thesis, I study Amiga ASCII text art. Amiga ASCII is a form of text art where the composition of letter characters set in the Amiga computer's font forms a two-dimensional representation or image. The Amiga scene is a subculture of computer enthusiasts that was popular in the 1990s. At its core are the logos and other visual materials created for BBS systems and the competitive rivalry among artists who create text art over their image-making prowess.

Tags: #amiga #art #ascii #bbs #retro

Who Wants One More Package Manager | MeaTLoTioN's Place

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 05:18:24 +0000

Creating a package manager for BBSes - BSR or BBS Sysop Repository is a tool that will enable you to install BBS doors in the same way you can install packages on your *nix operating system

Tags: #bbs #retro #social #sysadmin

Who Wants One More Package Manager | MeaTLoTioN's Place

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 03:42:44 +0000

Creating a package manager for BBSes - BSR or BBS Sysop Repository is a tool that will enable you to install BBS doors in the same way you can install packages on your *nix operating system

Tags: #bbs #linux

BBS PETSCII, 1986-1993 (WIP) | text-mode.org

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:44:51 +0000

Old Commodore 64 BBS graphics are not easy to find. A lot of it was probably never saved, and there’s not really any obvious place for it online either. So I was thrilled to get a whole bunch disk images from Sixx: more than 1,000 PETSCII graphics and animations! I’ve gone through it, removed duplicates, identified artists, etc, and captured it as images and videos. I’m not done yet, but I’m presenting it as is.

Tags: #art #bbs #c64 #petscii #retro

ActivityPub Beta on Xibalba BBS

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:01:20 +0000

Simply hop on Xibalba BBS and let me (NuSkooler) know you’d like to join in. You’ll get an @YourName@Xibalba.l33t.codes Fediverse address with the ability to both post and read public and private messages.

Tags: #activitypub #bbs #fediverse #imported:pinboard #oldschool #retro

ActivityPub Beta on Xibalba BBS

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:01:20 +0000

Tags: #activitypub #bbs #fediverse #oldschool #retro

Recreating ANSI Art from a screenshot | bertrand fan

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:51:52 +0000

It’s not the most beautiful ANSI art, but it is something that someone made for me and I’ve always been a little bummed that I can’t look at it in one of the many ANSI viewers (or DOS emulators) that exist today. Let’s fix that!

Tags: #ansi #art #bbs #imported:pinboard #retro

Recreating ANSI Art from a screenshot | bertrand fan

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:51:52 +0000

Tags: #ansi #art #bbs #retro