Just found this sub. The BBS days are a huge part of my past.
reddit / bbs

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ntengineer · 2022-01-15 07:51

Hello all!  I was made aware of this sub from another thread elsewhere
where we started talking about BBSing.  So I thought I would drop by
and say hi.

I did a lot of BBSing in the 90s, before the Age of the Internet
destroyed it.  I owned 1 BBS and co-owned another for a while.

My first BBS I ran on Wildcat.  It was a single line BBS with a bunch
of popular doors that grew eventually to 3 lines.  But after running
it for 2 years I had to move and my new apartment couldn't support the
number of phone lines, so I ended up taking it down.  It was in San
Jose, CA and was called "The Spider's Den"

The second BBS I helped run was a MajorBBS system.  It was 16 lines
with Internet connectivity.  It had been around a long time and
changed owners once, but I got into helping the last owner and
eventually bought into it financially before The Internet came to be.
We had forwarders all over the bay area that brought callers into us.
It was also in San Jose, CA and was called "The Inferno BBS."

Anyway, nice to see everyone hanging out here.

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gnu2tux · 2022-01-15 08:13

Hey welcome back! If you are interested in the scene today, check out
this documentary that was made in the last year or so:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLop3s1hMlSJKXqmuFjK7gbJh2WAyllTTY

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elkosupertech · 2022-01-15 13:37

I'm glad that you found my information useful.  I've been lurking here
for a while, also reminiscing about the old BBS days.

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StrafeReddit · 2022-01-15 13:57

If you want to revisit the old days, check this out:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgE-9Sxs2IBVgJkY-1ZMj0tIFxsJ-vOkv

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SmasherOfAjumma · 2022-01-15 15:16

I moved from San Jose, CA to the East coast before BBS became a thing.
I bet I would have heard of your BBS had I stayed. My favorite BBS
were on PCBoard, though Wildcat seemed most prevalent in my area.

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chairmanmow · 2022-01-15 17:27

I remember "The Inferno", I used to dial in from Palo Alto number - I
got banned from there by "Awesomebill" (is that you?), they weren't
friendly to teenagers having fun if I recall.  It was all good though,
I wound up as a Co-sysop on an 8 line Palo Alto Major BBS named
"Infodude" that did well for a couple years.  "Infodude" was my place
to hang long term, but I did stop by the "Inferno".  Anyways, I
'member!

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ntengineer · 2022-01-15 18:02

I am not Awesomebill, he was the main owner.

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dmine45 · 2022-01-16 01:30

Welcome back! There are LOTS of BBSes still out there, but most of us
are now on the Internet. Check out the Telnet BBS Guide -
[https://telnetbbsguide.com](https://telnetbbsguide.com)

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CodeLobe · 2022-01-16 01:51

Greets.

Everyone who wasn't BBSing now wishes they had.