Dial up and the internets
reddit / bbs

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Altair314 · 2019-07-31 21:37

I recently discovered bbses and how to connect to them with telnet,
but is there any way for me to use my standard internet connection to
connect to a dial up bbs?

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Bright_Falls · 2019-08-01 07:03

Using dial-up or Telnet are two different methods of making and
receiving a connection to a BBS. In most cases you use one or the
other - it’s not possible to directly connect to a dial-up only BBS
with Telnet. That’s not to say it’s impossible - you could Telnet to a
third-party computer which does the dial-up connection for you, but
this service sounds so niche I’d almost bet it doesn’t exist / is
accessible.

My advice? If you don’t have a landline, get one along with a
compatible modem for your computer. And then google about the magical
‘word’ of ‘ATDT’ to make your first calls. ;)

The problem is finding a BBS which is setup with dial-up lines that’s
not a long-distance call to you. On the side I’m working on
relaunching an old BBS on a raspberry pi which will have one dial-up
line in addition to regular Telnet. But it’s purely for my own
experiments at this stage, and won’t see the light of day till 2020 at
least.

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Heliarc1957 · 2019-08-05 13:23

All BBS use Dialup, Telnet or both. If you want to use the web you can
point your browser to
[http://havens.synchro.net](http://havens.synchro.net)