Last Outpost
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"I see you have boards listed after I shutdown in '96, but I
consider my BBS, Last Outpost the last of the multi-node, full
service BBS's in our area. I had games/chat rooms/file libraries;
it was a Searchlight BBS so it even had a GUI for the wimps
(Window, Icon, Mouse, People). :) In 1993 I was running 3 lines
with about 40 to 60 logins per day, with a user base of over 300,
not bad for a rural community in Southern Illinois. I had a three
county area that could make a local call to Last Outpost. Those
were great days, the sysops in the area not only ran their systems
but I remember we all would play games for a couple of hours a day
on each others boards. Kings Castle BBS in Centralia and The Hide
Out BBS in Salem played prominate roles for the online community
before the Internet shut us all down. I have Last Outpost BBS
intact on a harddrive on my bookshelf. Always thought that since
it's I-net capable that I would put it up on the Internet someday,
but it looks like that ain't gonna happen.
"It's nice what you've done here. People need to know about BBS's
and their contribution to the online world. Most people have never
heard of a BBS. Explaining what a BBS was or did, is...
interesting. They marvel at the idea that there were pre-internet
local online services that set precedents for what happens
everyday on the WEB. Enough of my ramblings. Thanks for the
memories." - Scott Luallen

Phone   : 618-548-9735
Place   : Salem, IL
Years   : 1992 - 1996
Sysop   : Scott Luallen
Software: SLBBS, Searchlight

Listed by telephone number, as they all were. A few of
these boards did reach the web: see recoveries-002.txt.
Source  : bbslist.textfiles.com, compiled by Jason Scott

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