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Bulletin board system - Features | | Bulletin board system - Features: Encyclopedia II - Bulletin board system - Features | | A typical BBS has:
A computer
One or more modems
One or more phone lines
A BBS software package
A sysop - system operator
Some BBSes allow telnet access over the Internet using a telnet server and a virtual FOSSIL driver:
COM/IP (Windows)
GameSrv/NetFOSS (Windows) [popular]
NetModem (Windows)
SIO/VMODEM (OS/2)
Synchronet bbs [Windows, Linux, OS/ ...
See also:Bulletin board system, Bulletin board system - History, Bulletin board system - Shareware, Bulletin board system - Features, Bulletin board system - BBSes, Bulletin board system - Related terms, Bulletin board system - BBS programs, Bulletin board system - Other | | | Bulletin board system, Bulletin board system - BBS programs, Bulletin board system - BBSes, Bulletin board system - Features, Bulletin board system - History, Bulletin board system - Other, Bulletin board system - Related terms, Bulletin board system - Shareware, Arbornet/M-Net, oldest Unix-based BBS, Demon Roach Underground, a popular hacker BBS and former home of CULT OF THE DEAD COW, The Gaming Center, a large Florida-based free BBS, GROGGS, a popular BBS in the University of Cambridge, ISCABBS, the largest worldwide BBS located at the University of Iowa., KaraNet, the biggest BBS in Austria, Monochrome, a popular BBS, originally based at City University, London, ProLink Information Network, started April 1991 and founding member of ChatLink August 1991, Rusty n Edie's BBS, raided by the FBI in 1993 and sued by Playboy in 1997, UNaXcess, a popular BBS in the University of Manchester, The Dark Domain, a mostly social BBS, based out of Rosemead, California run on an old TRS-80. A complex system of message boards devoted to different topics (humor, movie reviews, anonymous posting, flirtations) were available based on user rankings which were denoted by 'magic-using' monikers (Evokers, Sorcerors, Wizards being the highest). The callers regularly met for monthly "Jousts", where the attendees traded software, played Ultimate Frisbee and 'socialized'. Run by the mysterious Lord Zarchon. Many related boards sprung up from hangers-on and rivals to Lord Zarchon (The Citadel, Realm of the Pink Dragon, Freedom Forest). Closed forever in the late Eighties before the Internet explosion. | | |
| | | Bulletin board system: Encyclopedia II - Bulletin board system - Features
Bulletin board system - Features
A typical BBS has:
- A computer
- One or more modems
- One or more phone lines
- A BBS software package
- A sysop - system operator
- Some BBSes allow telnet access over the Internet using a telnet server and a virtual FOSSIL driver:
- COM/IP (Windows)
- GameSrv/NetFOSS (Windows) [popular]
- NetModem (Windows)
- SIO/VMODEM (OS/2)
- Synchronet bbs [Windows, Linux, OS/2]Synchronet Homepage [popular]
The BBS software usually provides:
- Login screen
- Welcome screen
- One or more message bases
- File areas
- Online games (usually single player or only a single active player at a given time)
- A doorway to third-party online games
- Usage auditing capabilities
- Multi-user chat (more common in later multi-line or telnettable BBSes)
- Internet email (more common in later Internet-connected BBSes)
A BBS will often have mail (or mailer) software to interface with a network, such as FidoNet. Commonly used mailers include (or have included):
- BinkleyTerm (widely ported to different Operating Systems)
- Seadog (very old!)
- D'Bridge
- FrontDoor
- Intermail
- McMail
- Sinister Offline Mail Reader
- Xenia
- Portal of Power
- Qmail
- Rnet
- MarkMail
- SLMR
- CamMail
- T-Mail
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 Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Features", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki |
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