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Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died

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322 points DamonHD | 1 comments | 13 Oct 24 15:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.271s | source
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xorcist ◴[13 Oct 24 18:01 UTC] No.41830084[source]▶
BBSes was such a huge part of being into computers in the 80s and 90s.

I really wish this culture could be understood by future generations. Yes, we have the BBS Documentary movie but we need so much more. Everything non-US is underdocumented, and all the subcultures such as the eLiTe scene, the demo scene, the vision impaired stuff, all of that risks being forgotten with time.

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avg_dev ◴[13 Oct 24 21:33 UTC] No.41831816[source]▶
here is one nice site http://bbslist.textfiles.com/
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jart ◴[13 Oct 24 22:13 UTC] No.41832160[source]▶
Isn't that just a list of phone numbers?

What are some websites that host the text files, ansi art, and computer programs from old school BBS systems? I would really love to be able to mirror that with wget and explore it in emacs.

Edit: http://www.textfiles.com/directory.html looks good.

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1. kmoser ◴[15 Oct 24 20:00 UTC] No.41852519[source]▶
I saved a whole bunch of files from my BBS days, including screen captures of the BBSes themselves:

https://www.kmoser.com/bbs/