Indy Text based gaming and social media

Once upon a time we didn’t have always on 5G+ULTRASATELLITEXLINKINTERGALACTIC hyper internet VR blah blah blah keeping us entertained. We passed notes in class, left them in pre-ordained drop off locations and used dialup modems over phone lines (and maybe even payphones and very expensive radio telephone networks) and knew what frequency modulation was.

Many systems went offline as commercial Internet became more commonly available but some continue to operate to this day along with various public and private echo and gaming networks. Cooler to see is new BBS software being written in nodejs (Enigma) and the ancients like SynchroNet have incorporated modern net tech such as Javascript for many of its services and apps!

We see new systems come online regularly as people explore alternate systems that come with a lower cost/lower overhead/lower bandwidth communications option and an alternative to the global pirate boards, err.. main stream social media sites.. that dominate within the media landscape.


Sysop Resources

  • Reddit /r/bbs
  • Sysop echos on the networks and “near by” boards
  • MysticBBS – Windows, Linux, macOS, PI/ARM.
  • Renegade – DOS based BBS software (1.19 era and modern flavours)
  • Enigma1/2 BBS – NodeJS multiplatform BBS software
  • SynchroNet BBS – Windows (and Linux) BBS software that powers DOVENET. Pretty interesting – C engine with many services rewritten in javascript (not nodejs). Been around for decades. See Vertrauer BBS info page

Networks

  • fsxnet
  • fidonet – fidonet nodelist search (including historical) YMMV may vary on how to get a node number. You probably don’t have to follow the same procedures as way back in the day 😉


Archives, Lists and Mega Sites