Forum: Too Lazy BBS

What did compuserve and among other online services in the 1980s look like and do any bbses exist that aim to emulate them?.

From BBS ( /u/Ok_Bear_1980 https://www.reddit.com/user/Ok_Bear_1980 ) to All on Thu Apr 23 06:54:48 2026

I'm reading about how online services like compuserve, the source, genie, dow jones and others were like and from what I know they were mostly text based and compuserve specifically used a text format called vidtex. I was born well after the dial up era and have always wondered what they all look like and would love to see a bbs that tries to emulate the look and features of these online services. Compuserve especially. I know nina.chat has plans to revive compuserve but as far as I know that's mostly providing a server for the windows and mac clients. I suggested to them on their patreon to try and start by recreating the 1980s text only terminal only. So far they haven't responded to me yet. I would love to see this considering pretty much all atascii bbses are single user only. submitted by /u/Ok_Bear_1980 [link] [comments]