vga256<p>just found a treasure trove of extremely obscure BBS history stashed away on IA</p><p>thank you hard-working book scanners for preserving this rarity. </p><p>if you're familiar with BBSing in the 90s, you'll remember just how fast the vast majority of boards disappeared in 1995. it went from multinode 24/7 bbses to disconnected phone numbers in just a few months</p><p>this book accounts for the very small number of BBSes that made the transition from telco-only to "telBBS" or telnettable/web-accessible boards</p><p>3/4 of the book is a carefully curated list of 500 boards with screenshots of their homepages and bbs login/title screens. most importantly, the URLs of these boards is preserved so we have a chance to look them up on WBM some day.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/internetbbss00rich" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/internetbb</span><span class="invisible">ss00rich</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webHistory</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/smallweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>