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80’s & 90’s
Bulletin Board System’s a little history/defined
A bulletin board system or BBS (also called Computer Bulletin Board Service, CBBS[1]) is a computer
server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once
logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data,
reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users through email, public message
boards, and sometimes via direct chatting. Many BBSes also offer online games in which users can
compete with each other, and BBSes with multiple phone lines often provide chat rooms, allowing
users to interact with each other. Bulletin board systems were in many ways a precursor to the
modern form of the World Wide Web, social networks, and other aspects of the Internet. Low-cost,
high-performance modems drove the use of online services and BBSes through the early 1990s.
Infoworld estimated that there were 60,000 BBSes serving 17 million users in the United States alone
in 1994, a collective market much larger than major online services such as CompuServe.
Mystic Prison BBS
represents the hub of all
Prison BBS’s
RDFIG Computer Solutions, a sole proprieter
company, hosts all the Prison Board BBS’s. For
more information on this company go to its website
by clicking on the RDFIG Computer Solutions
button.
This site provided as a convenience to persons who
have never experienced connecting to a BBS. It
facilitates the connection via your Internet browser.
Telnet Clients are best used to
connect to BBS’s. It gives users a
more look and feel for it
Telnet clients can be found anywhere on the web
including the RDFIG Computer Solutions websie.
The most common telnet clients in use today are the
SyncTerm and NetRunner software. Syncterm can
be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/syncterm/
NetRunner can be found at:
http://www.mysticbbs.com/downloads.html
(select windows or linux version)
.
The introduction of inexpensive dial-up internet service and the Mosaic web browser
offered ease of use and global access that BBS and online systems did not provide,
and led to a rapid crash in the market starting in 1994. Over the next year, many of
the leading BBS software providers went bankrupt and tens of thousands of BBSes
disappeared. Today, BBSing survives largely as a nostalgic hobby in most parts of the
world, but it is still an extremely popular form of communication for Taiwanese youth
(see PTT Bulletin Board System).[2] Most BBSes are now accessible over Telnet and
typically offer free email accounts, FTP services, IRC and all of the protocols
commonly used on the Internet. Some offer access through packet switched
networks or packet radio connections.
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