I was a sysop back in the early 90's. One of the best times of my life and was the catalyst to my current career in IT.
I toyed with starting a BBS a few years ago and it never really took off, but now, with the state of the internet and the influx of bots and AI dominating everything, I figured I would try again and create a BBS that is more human-centric, slower pace, and can take us old-school BBS users/sysops back to a time when BBS was the center of the universe!
I'm calling it RetroBoard BBS, running WWIV 5.8.1 on Debian 12.
It is still a work in progress, I have DOORS like TradeWars, LoRD, Usurper, BRE, DoorMUD, PimpWars working via BBSLink. I am slowly seeding the message boards and once I have a some users I will most likely apply to WWIVnet and maybe FIDOnet.
You can use a telnet client (like SyncTerm) or connect directly from the website in the browser via fTelnet.
web:
https://retroboardbbs.com
telnet: bbs.retroboardbbs.com:2323 submitted by /u/Future-AI-Dude [link] [comments]