I ran a few back in the day. Then FidoMail became a thing which you attached as a front end to your BBS. I ran Canadian hub for a while. I also had a separate D&D program a friend wrote that ran with my BBS.
To log into the BBS you would use a program like Telix.
About 3-4 years before internet became a household thing I ran a dating system on an IBM AT clone with 2 8 port serial plugin ports with 16 US Robotic modems with 16 line equiv main number.
Could have 16 peops chatting in the forums. Hehe everyone thought it was run off a mainframe. I wish I could remember the name of the custom dating software. I remember it was from California.
Had a ton of fun with that site.
Don’t forget BBS’s
https://www.scisdata.com/connections/issue-4/what-is-an-electronic-bulletin-board/
I ran a few back in the day. Then FidoMail became a thing which you attached as a front end to your BBS. I ran Canadian hub for a while. I also had a separate D&D program a friend wrote that ran with my BBS. To log into the BBS you would use a program like Telix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telix
About 3-4 years before internet became a household thing I ran a dating system on an IBM AT clone with 2 8 port serial plugin ports with 16 US Robotic modems with 16 line equiv main number. Could have 16 peops chatting in the forums. Hehe everyone thought it was run off a mainframe. I wish I could remember the name of the custom dating software. I remember it was from California. Had a ton of fun with that site.