Telnet BBS Guide

I was waxing poetic the other day about the old BBS days.

In the early-to-mid 90's, your online experience frequently consisted of dialing in to a bulletin board system, or BBS, with your modem. After the connection squeals subside, you were hooked to a remote computer running BBS software. You logged in with a user name and password, and then you had access to files, chats, email, and other cool stuff like that.

Then along came the WWW, and BBS's began vanishing.

Or so I thought.

Today's FamilyFirst pick is called the BBS Corner's Telnet BBS Guide.

It turns out that many BBS's still exist. While dialup connections have largely vanished, you can still connect to hundreds of BBS's via telnet. it looks and acts like your old modem software!

It's a fun trip doan memory lane for us old goats, and you who have never experienced the BBS experience will enjoy the funky interfaces that the BBS server provides.

There are still lots of files available for downloading, too!

So enjoy today's FamilyFirst pick, and step back in the past a few years.

http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

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