Is it ok to post my new BBS here? If not, sorry. If so, it's BBC CEEFAX-inspired. reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thatstevelord · 2018-09-11 12:31 It's a UK-based BBS. BBSes weren't really popular for most of the UK due to the popularity of services like Prestel and Micronet and BT's 80s monopoly pricing. By the time BBSes became more accessible, ISPs like Compuserve an Demon were already available, so BBSes tended to compete a little with the Internet. What we did have with mass appeal was Teletext. This came in a few different flavours, including the dial-in Prestel option, and the more popular but mostly one-way Ceefax/Teletext. Juicy HQ is a BBS for a conference run in the UK, 44CON. We kept getting asked about our slack channel, so here it is :) It runs on Enigma with some mods, please do feel free to take a look. I'm running the conf over the next few days but plan to clean up the theme, do a bit more work on features then I'll start looking at linking up to Agora and possibly see about doing something with Force9 and Undercurrents. I'd love any feedback you may have. Apologies if I'm not meant to post here, just thought some would like the theme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kaylus · 2018-11-03 20:08 Just wanted to add to the conversation. I had no idea about Ceefax/Teletext/Prestel; the Wiki on Prestel is rather boring so I would like to hear more. My wife grew up and used Minitel in France so remembers this as opposed to my memory of BBS systems. For context, I see this: [http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/ceefax/main1.shtml](http://teletex t.mb21.co.uk/gallery/ceefax/main1.shtml) If this was a one-way service did you have any interactive services? I think it will be interesting to hear more, the US BBS scene is mainly documented in the BBS Documentary and gives a fair understanding, but not the feeling of connecting. We had hundreds of BBS systems in the 813 area code growing up, some of them one liners, some megaboards (16/32 line systems with multiline chat connects to Sydney/Miami/etc. on the weekends)… so you could basically choose your adventure. The one-line boards were sometimes really notable for their particular styles, sub-cultures, and message forums. I remember sadly watching them wilt and fade away as the internet paved it's highway over their lawns. Not that I didn't help, one of our larger PCBoard systems started offering shell accounts and I was one of the first to snag it up and start compiling CircleMud for telnet hosting :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thatstevelord · 2018-11-04 10:36 Ceefax and UK variants were mostly a one-way service. There was a [Televox](http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/ancillary/televox.shtml) service that used pages in the 700 range with a mobile phone and voice commands, and the 800 range was sometimes used on Ceefax to transmit programs to BBC Micro computers. [Teletext is still used today](http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/live.shtml) around the world, just not in the UK.