Bulletin board systems Bulletin board systems Ability Online was started in 1991 by Dr. Arlette Lefebvre (aka "Dr. Froggie") and co-founder Brian Hillis, at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario. Originally a BBS, the service was set up to connect disabled/ill children and their parents to other disabled children and their parents around the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ability Online"
ACiD Productions (ACiD) is an underground digital art group. Founded in 1990, the group originally specialized in ANSI artwork for BBSes. More recently, they have extended their reach into other graphical media and computer software development. ...more on Wikipedia about "ACiD Productions"
ANSI art is a computer artform that was widely used at one time on BBSes. It is similar to ASCII art, but constructed from a larger set of 256 letters, numbers, and symbols — all codes found in IBM codepage 437, often referred to as extended ASCII and used in MS-DOS environments. ANSI art also contains special ANSI escape codes that color text with the 16 foreground and 8 background colours offered by ANSI.SYS, an MS-DOS device driver loosely based upon the ANSI X3.64 standard for terminal emulation. Some ANSI artists take advantage of the cursor control sequences within ANSI X3.64 in order to create animations, commonly referred to as ANSImations. ANSI art and text files which incorporate ANSI codes carry the de facto .ANS file extension. ...more on Wikipedia about "ANSI art"
Arbornet is a corporation based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA that operates the M-Net computer bulletin board system. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arbornet"
The AVATAR protocol (Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator) is a system of escape sequences occasionally used on Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes). It has largely the same functionality as the more popular ANSI escape codes, but has the advantage that the escape sequences are much shorter. AVATAR can thus render colored text and artwork much faster over slow connections. ...more on Wikipedia about "AVATAR"
A BBS door was a mechanism to execute and communicate with an external program, commonly a game on bulletin board systems (commonly referred to as door games). The BBS software would start the external program, and the door system would pass data back and forth between the door program, the BBS, and the remote user. To supply the door program with the user's information (such as the user's alias and the amount of time they had spent online), the BBS software would create a drop file containing information for the program to read. FOSSIL was a popular communications hardware/software interface standard used by MS-DOS compatible BBS software and door programs which has helped these legacy programs remain compatible with modern communications technologies such as Telnet and Rlogin. ...more on Wikipedia about "BBS door"
Bluegem BBS( ) is an electronic bulletin board system (or BBS in short) hosted in Beijing, China. The majority part of the current user community were past-time students of Beijing Jiaotong University (a.k.a Northern Jiaotong University). It is owned and maintained by several of its original creators, while managed by a board of administrators selected from trusted volunteers from the user community. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bluegem BBS"
A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. During their heyday (from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s), many BBSes were run as a hobby free of charge by the " SysOp" (system operator), while other BBSes charged their users a subscription fee for access. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bulletin board system"
CULT OF THE DEAD COW, also known as cDc, is a computer hacker and DIY media organization founded in 1984 in Lubbock, Texas. The group maintains a weblog on its site , also titled "CULT OF THE DEAD COW." New media are released first through the blog, which also features thoughts and opinions of the group's members. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cult of the Dead Cow"
Demon Roach Underground (DRU) was a Lubbock, Texas based BBS that was popular in the " hacker" scene. ...more on Wikipedia about "Demon Roach Underground"
The ExecPC BBS (+1 414 789-4210) was a computer bulletin board system (BBS) launched on November 28, 1983 and administrated by Bob Mahoney of Elm Grove, WI. ExecPC was a pay service with limited free access. The BBS had an extensive set of doorgames, including Usurper and Lords. By the late-1990s the BBS had stopped being maintained. In 1999 the ExecBBS PC was finally unplugged. ...more on Wikipedia about "ExecPC BBS"
FidoNet is an inter-connecting file and message transport system that was used by bulletin board systems. The network still exists today, but is dwindling in size and organization, due to the lack of callers to BBS systems that it was developed to serve, and the closing of most of those systems as a result. ...more on Wikipedia about "FidoNet"
FILE_ID.DIZ is a plain text file containing a brief content ...more on Wikipedia about "FILE ID.DIZ"
A free-net was originally meant to mean a computer system which provides public access to a large number of resources including community information through text-based dialup. Once registered, users can typically access e-mail, Usenet newsgroups, chat rooms (typically IRC), telnet, and often other services. ...more on Wikipedia about "Free-Net"
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Grex is a public access Unix bulletin board system that promotes anonymous access. The system is operated by Cyberspace Communications, and located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grex"
GROGGS (" General-purpose Reverse-Ordered Gossip Gathering System") is a bulletin board system at Cambridge University. It began in 1985 on the mainframe Phoenix. ...more on Wikipedia about "GROGGS"
GTA-SanAndreas.com is a British internet fan-based website for the Grand Theft Auto gaming series, created on February 17th, 2003. Since creation, it has become the most popular fansite for Grand Theft Auto (according to TheGTAPlace.com , powered by alexa pagerank) with a forum community of over 25,000 members, and well over 800,000 posts. It was created and is maintained and updated by Simon 'Psy' Elliott, and is currently being transformed into a PHP-sourced site with guides and advice for all the GTA games, GTAGuides.com . It is mentioned in the back of the GTA San Andreas manual, included with the game, and has also been namechecked in the UK Official PS2 Magazine. ...more on Wikipedia about "GTA-SanAndreas.com"
iCE Advertisements is a digital art group formed in 1991. Although the expanded title is rarely ever used, iCE is an acronym for Insane Creators Enterprise, founded by French Canadian member Many Axe (later known as Frozen Tormentor). ...more on Wikipedia about "ICE Advertisements"
JKara is a Bulletin Board System (BBS), which has been developed from scratch in Java. The intended goal has been to become an open source successor of KaraNet that had become unmaintainable due to compilation problems after a compiler update. ...more on Wikipedia about "JKara"
MindVox was a famed early Internet Service Provider in New York City. A controversial sometime media darling — the service was referred to as "the Hells Angels of Cyberspace" ** — it was founded in 1991 by Bruce Fancher ( Dead Lord) and Patrick Kroupa ( Lord Digital), two former members of the legendary Legion of Doom hacker group ** . The system was at least partially online by March of 1992, and open to the public in November of that year. ...more on Wikipedia about "MindVox"
A modem (a portmanteau word constructed from modulator and demodulator) is a device that modulates a carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. The goal is to produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital data. ...more on Wikipedia about "Modem"
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Monochrome BBS, known to users as "Mono", was originally a student bulletin board system at City University in the early 1990s, consisting mainly of a set of discussion files organised into a tree structure: there are collections of files on current affairs, technology, medicine, entertainment, lifestyles, various hobbies and sports, and so on. ...more on Wikipedia about "Monochrome BBS"
Founded in 1992 by people affiliated with Carleton University, the National Capital Freenet (NCF) is a non-profit community organization BBS, with the goal to link people in Canada's capital of Ottawa. It was the second free-net set up world-wide. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Capital Freenet"
NirvanaNET was a dialup BBS network started in 1990 in the San Francisco Bay Area by Joe Russack aka Dr. Strangelove (Sysop of Just Say Yes), Earl Ruby, aka Jeff Hunter (sysop of &TOTSE), and Ratsnatcher (Sysop of Rat head Systems). NIRVANAnet was unique among BBS networks because member BBS systems agreed to allow anyone to connect and access everything on the systems instantly and anonymously. They also traded thousands of text files between the systems covering every subject imaginable; &TOTSE still does, online. ...more on Wikipedia about "NIRVANAnet"
Philes commonly refer to files about hacking in the days of BBSs. Ph may have been originally used as homage to the phone/phreak. ...more on Wikipedia about "Phile"
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