BBSmates.com

[Digiital]

Lose contact with your old BBS buddies during the
internet revolution?

On this website, you can:
• Search a list of 75,000 BBSes that existed from the
80's to present!
• If you were a sysop, look for your old BBS or add it
if it's not already in the database
• Add yourself as a member to BBSes that you called
• Find members that you used to chat and game with!

http://www.bbsmates.com/default.asp

[Les Shaw]

I was a big BBS'er , we even became close friends with Brendon of AceSparks in Toronto.
A fews after I moved trying to sign in was working so one day the number was answered by a person ... telling Brendon had died from a embulizim ...

Last I heard ..

So off to look for former BBS users

Thanks for the link

[Digiital]

Your welcome.

[freestylegreek]

Ya i knew a few people who ran a bbs but they were complete idiots who ruined there reputation. They would ban people and kick people just for the fun of it. There are still bbs's out there but its all on telnet.

Oh I forgot I got one guy arrested cause when I started on BBS's I used a stupid nickname and had some guy harrassing me all the time. Even found my number and called me. Thanks to a sysop of a BBS I knew he got his number and some info about how the guy wanted to beat me up and the guy got arressted for uttering threats and basically whatever comes with that.

I was i think 14 at the time. But was on bbs's when i was 12 just got a computer when i was 14.

Does anyone remember "Warez?" LOL

[Ken_ver_1_5]

oh yes the ol bbs days was running q-modem started with a 300 baud modem
and went to a 33.6 when the net started. I have never looked back.

[freestylegreek]

If my keyboard and mouse were working 100% on my old pentium computer i would still be calling bbs's cause there are some that are still working. Most of them have moved just to telnet.

There are still tons and tons of bbs's but there are all telnet. The best BBS I was on was called "Worth Every Byte". Amazing place for messages and chatting and I was willing to even pay $20 a month to get many hours on there cause we could go in a chat room and talk to other people from across the world which I did many times.

One BBS I was on I made about over 3,000 posts which is very rare for me but the BBS I was on at the time had tons of people making posts in the message board.

Of course there were some stupid bbs's where the sysops would ban and disconnect people on purpose while there were others that were just as great as the other BBS I mentioned.

[Skyguy]

oh yes the ol bbs days was running q-modem started with a 300 baud modem
and went to a 33.6 when the net started. I have never looked back.
Ah, those were the days! :)

Comodore 64s & 128s... Chatting about grade school/high school tests (& how to cheat on 'em :mbx: )... tying up my mom's phone line for hours so I could download 1 GIF file of a babe in a bikini... writing my own BASIC programs... talking to a friend, who knows someone, who knows someone about how to surreptitiously get into some new cool pay-BBS site...

Those were the days! :) :)

[Mr. Apollo]

Haha I found two guys I knew in highschool that ran a BBS.

I remember calling friends on the phone and saying "Let's chat on Telix." We'd then hang up an call each other via Telix and chat. Oh man we were such nerds, why not just talk on the phone.

I remember lots of files using the .ARJ compression format too.

[Lee Anne]

I was on a couple but I don't remember the names of them :(