I've been trying to dig up as much about japanese grassroots BBSs
as I can. This all started because I saw hints of an old ncurses
midi writer called STed2 whose README had all sorts of ties to a
BBS called yui-NET. There's a lot of stuff about desktop music
(DTM) and japanese music 'writing' or 'typing' culture that is
really interesting to me. So I've been slowly trying to work my way
through information and just dumping some of it here. If anyone has
any more information about anything here please let me know :-)

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yui-NET

grassroots BBS primarily for DTM (DeskTop Music) and MIDI
discussion/filesharing

SysOp Yui Kobo (Yuichiro Yamamoto) 

yui-NET was founded october 5, 1991, 
    officially opening december 1, 1991
    and closed early 2005

had over 20,000 members
    including "c'mon music" the members of DTM magazine
    members can be found in a few mixi boards but none are active

notable members
- BOMBER (Satoshi Arisue)
a.k.a. Satoshi Mimori, Black Bomber 
    FORMAT-BBS  FMT0002
    68 heaven   ROKU0033
    Yuinet      YUI17075
    Apple Tart  APLE0059
    Happinet    HAPI0131
    S³ignale®t  SIG00494

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Software
    STed2 - STed was a recomposer knockoff for the x68k japanese
        home computer, STed2 was a UNIX port, ported with efforts
        from two members of yui-NET
    TASL - Text Animation Scenario Language
        plaintext animation file format

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supposedly alive grassroots BBS
- parsley net
- wapico 
- midnight driving
- hanzou BBS
- virusu net
- seiwa net