This is an incomplete list of notable bulletin board systems: __NOTOC__ * Amateur Action BBS * French Connection BBS - famous California dating BBS written by Hal Finney and Stephen Cohen started in 1979 * CBBS – the first BBS on record, established 1978 *Celco 51 Operation Cybersnare – United States Secret Service Cellular Fraud sting BBS * Demon Roach Underground – popular hacker BBS and former home of the

CULT OF THE DEAD COW Cult of the Dead Cow, also known as cDc or cDc Communications, 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 rele ...

ExecPC BBS ExecPC is an online service provider started in 1983 by owner Bob Mahoney as the Exec-PC BBS. It quickly grew to be one of the world's largest bulletin board systems in the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, competing with the likes of Compuserve ...

– America's largest dial-up BBS through the late 1980s * Forum 80 – based in Kingston upon Hull, the UK's first BBS, started in 1980 *

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Gay and Lesbian Information Bureau – BBS based in the D.C. Metro-area offering information and support services to the gay and lesbian community in the 1980s and 90s. Also operated "GayComm Talk About Aids" FidoNet echo. *

ISCABBS ISCABBS, also known as ISCA, is a bulletin board system ("BBS"), formerly based at the University of Iowa. Dave's own version of Citadel, an early branch of the Citadel/UX BBS software, was developed to run ISCA. Like most Citadels, the focus is ...

– largest worldwide BBS, formerly located at the

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, and still running as of 2019. * MindVox – famous New York based BBS and internet service provider founded by members of

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* Monochrome BBS – BBS based in the UK, founded in 1990 and still running 2018 * OSUNY – legendary old-school hack/

phreak Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a culture of people who study, experiment with, or explore telecommunication systems, such as equipment and systems connected to public telephone networks. The term ''phreak'' is a ...

BBS from the 1980s * pcmicro * Plover-NET – early hacker BBS, origins of hacker group

PTT Bulletin Board System PTT Bulletin Board System (PTT, , telnet://ptt.cc) is the largest terminal-based bulletin board system (BBS) based in Taiwan. It was founded by Yi-Chin Tu and other students from the National Taiwan University in 1995 as Professional Technology ...

– largest BBS in Taiwan, still the most popular online forum in 2018 * Purple Ocean – one of the largest North American Gaming BBS's of in the mid-1980s * Rusty n Edie's BBS – raided by the FBI in 1993 and sued by ''

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'' in 1997 * SDF Public Access Unix System - Started in 1987 as an ANIME SIG and continues to run a
sdf.org
* SF Net – was a coin-operated BBS accessible from select coffee shops located throughout the

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SMTH BBS Shuimu Tsinghua ({{zh, s=水木清华, p=shuǐmù qīnghuá; abbreviated as SMTH) BBS is the first and one of the most popular bulletin board system sites among the universities in China. Hosted by Tsinghua University, it is recognized for its dive ...

– The largest BBS in China, hosted by Tsinghua University * StarDoc 134 – DOS/Linux hybrid test BBS. Running modified ELEBBS software * The Brewers' Witch BBS – Texas-based BBS catering to Pagan and Neopagan discussion and community * TOTSE – Bay Area BBS known for large and often controversial selection of text files and internet discussion forum

References

External links

BBS: The Documentary
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TEXTFILES.COM Historical BBS List
- A collection of BBS numbers from the past 20 Years
Roblist
- An article on (and extract of) "Roblist", the de facto BBS list for South Africa active until 1996.
Telnet BBS Guide
- The largest active listing of Telnet accessible Bulletin Board Systems on the Internet (since 1997)
bbs-scene.org bbs list
active boards circa 2013 (via

Wayback Machine The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, California. Created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001, it allows the user to go "back in time" and see ...

) {{BBS Bulletin board systems Internet culture

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