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just found a treasure trove of extremely obscure BBS history stashed away on IA

thank you hard-working book scanners for preserving this rarity.

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

this book accounts for the very small number of BBSes that made the transition from telco-only to "telBBS" or telnettable/web-accessible boards

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.

archive.org/details/internetbb

The front cover of the book Internet BBSs: A Guided Tour, by Richard Scott Mark.A screenshot of two pages from the book. Each page shows a screenshot of a BBS's homepage, or its login screen with ANSI graphics. Four boards are shown: Anarchy-X, The Annex!, AOP BBS and AppleWize OnLine.The rear cover of Internet BBSs: A Guided Tour by Richard Scott Mark. It reads: . so you use the Internet. You’ve surfed some Web sites and maybe sent e-mail. But, chances are, you’ve overlooked the rich and really personal dimension of the Internet represented by the explosive growth of Internet BBSs. That’s because up till now BBS publications were limited in scope to the old era of dial-up BBSs. Until recently the world of BBSs was geographically compartmentalized: in practical terms only the BBSs within a local telephone call were accessible. Now, the Internet has made all Internet BBSs accessible to anyone in the world. Internet BBSs: A Guided Tour provides in-depth coverage of this new world of true BBSs now available world-wide. It is a valuable resource for anyone currently using the Internet. Users of the major on-line service forums and chat groups should also read it to find out how they can access a much richer variety of BBSs at less cost.
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