BBS's & AE's reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- myke113 · 2022-10-23 15:23 Back in the dialup BBS days, there were systems called "AE's" as well, that seemed to mostly contain text / gfiles. I can't for the life of me remember what AE stood for, and I can't seem to find anything about it online! Does anybody remember what it stood for..? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dpirmann · 2022-10-23 15:28 Probably this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Express ---------------------------------------------------------------------- myke113 · 2022-10-23 15:44 I was thinking that could be a possibility, but I also saw AE's running on other systems (including one on a Commodore 64!!) That looks like a terminal program. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Divarin1 · 2022-10-23 15:45 I guess if that's what the op is referring to then AE isn't a service, like a BBS but rather a particular terminal emulator. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- myke113 · 2022-10-23 15:46 But damn, that article mentions phreaking... that brings back memories =) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jfalcon206 · 2022-10-23 16:53 ASCII Express had a "Host" feature that allowed a host to serve out textfiles. At least that was my experience with it, with my first being "The Convent" in 619. Today, you could probably code one better in Perl, especially if you want to avoid hardware and software hassles and limitations. AE mode was great when you wanted to have your system be a service providing your curation of content. But it wasn't GBBS or RBBS or Citadel. Hence why they were popular with groups like cDc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PyramidClub · 2022-10-23 18:18 I ran an AE line for a while, but I always preferred Catfur. *Edit:* I used to have a whole list of AE lines, but I can only find [a couple, hand-written](https://i.imgur.com/3LKZybu.png) at the moment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lucidphreak · 2023-02-03 14:30 Definitely Ascii Express... The Dead Zone in Dallas (phreak board/warez board) ran GBBS, but had an AE drop down where you would exit GBBS and be handed off to AE - where the dude had a bunch of Apple Cat Modem Phreaking Apps as well as the normal trove of text files.