List of bulletin board systems
Main article: Bulletin board system
This is a list of notable bulletin board systems:
- Amateur Action BBS[1][2][3][4][5]
- CBBS, the first BBS on record, established 1978
- Celco 51 Operation Cybersnare, United States Secret Service Cellular Fraud sting BBS
- Demon Roach Underground, a popular hacker BBS and former home of the CULT OF THE DEAD COW
- ExecPC BBS, 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
- ISCABBS, the largest worldwide BBS, formerly located at the University of Iowa, and still running as of 2016
- MindVox, a famous New York based BBS and internet service provider founded by members of Legion of Doom
- Monochrome BBS, a BBS based in the UK, founded in 1990 and still running 2016
- OSUNY, legendary old-school hack/phreak BBS from the 1980s
- Plover-NET, early hacker BBS, origins of hacker group Legion of Doom
- PTT Bulletin Board System, the largest BBS in Taiwan, still the most popular online forum in 2014
- 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 Playboy in 1997
- SF Net, was a coin-operated BBS accessible from select coffee shops located throughout the San Francisco Bay Area
- SMTH BBS The largest BBS in China, hosted by Tsinghua University
- Software Creations BBS
- StarDoc 134. a Dos/Linux hybrid test BBS. Running modified ELEBBS software
- The Brewers' Witch BBS, a 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 fora
See also
- List of BBS software
- List of artscene groups
- Boardwatch Magazine
Further reading
- Mark, Richard Scott (1996). Internet BBSs: a guided tour. ISBN 1-884777-30-9. via the Internet Archive.
References
- ↑ "EFF "Legal Cases - US v. Thomases - Amateur Action (AABBS), Memphis" Archive". Retrieved 11 September 2015.
- ↑ Rosenoer, Jonathan (2012). CyberLaw: The Law of the Internet. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 182–189. ISBN 978-0-387-94832-4.
- ↑ Corley, Eric; Thomas, Robert (12 February 1992). "Off The Hook February 1992" (MP3). 2600: The Hacker Quarterly; WBAI (New York). Retrieved 8 September 2015.
Corley, Eric; Thomas, Robert (19 May 1993). "Off The Hook May 1993" (MP3). 2600: The Hacker Quarterly; WBAI (New York). Retrieved 8 September 2015.
Corley, Eric; Thomas, Robert (3 August 1994). "Off The Hook August 1994" (MP3). 2600: The Hacker Quarterly; WBAI (New York). Retrieved 8 September 2015. - ↑ Conley, Chris; Johnson, Rob (24 July 1994). "The battle of digital pornography". The Telegraph; Scripps Howard News Service. p. G-4.
Memphis case may have effect on all online services
- ↑ "High-tech case tests U.S. obscenity laws". Toledo Blade. Associated Press. 21 July 1994. p. 3. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
External links
- BBS: The Documentary
- List of bulletin board systems at DMOZ
- BBS Mates - BBSes from the 80s to the present
- TEXTFILES.COM Historical BBS List - A collection of BBS numbers from the past 20 Years
- Telnet BBS Guide - The largest active listing of Telnet accessible Bulletin Board Systems on the Internet (since 1997)
- Roblist - An article on (and extract of) "Roblist", a popular BBS list for South Africa active until 1996.
- bbs-scene.org bbs list active boards circa 2013 (via Wayback Machine)
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