List of bulletin board systems

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Main article: Bulletin board system

This is an incomplete list of notable bulletin board systems:

* Amateur Action BBS[1]
* French Connection BBS - famous California dating BBS written by Hal Finney and Stephen Cohen started in 1979[2]
* CBBS – the first BBS on record, established 1978
* Celco 51 Operation Cybersnare – United States Secret Service Cellular Fraud sting BBS
* Demon Roach Underground – popular hacker BBS and former home of the CULT OF THE DEAD COW
* ExecPC BBS – America's largest dial-up BBS through the late 1980s
* Forum 80 – based in Kingston upon Hull, the UK's first BBS, started in 1980
* GLIB Gay and Lesbian Information Bureau – BBS based in the D.C. Metro-area offering information and support services to the gay and lesbian community in the 1980s and 90s. Also operated "GayComm Talk About Aids" FidoNet echo.[3][4][5]
* ISCABBS – largest worldwide BBS, formerly located at the University of Iowa, and still running as of 2019.
* MindVox – famous New York based BBS and internet service provider founded by members of Legion of Doom
* Monochrome BBS – BBS based in the United Kingdom , founded in 1990 and still running 2023
* OSUNY – legendary old-school hack/phreak BBS from the 1980s
* pcmicro
* Plover-NET – early hacker BBS, origins of hacker group Legion of Doom
* PTT Bulletin Board System – largest BBS in Taiwan, still the most popular online forum in 2018
* Purple Ocean – one of the largest North American Gaming BBS's of in the mid-1980s
* Rusty n Edie's BBS – raided by the FBI in 1993 and sued by Playboy in 1997
* SDF Public Access Unix System \- Started in 1987 as an ANIME SIG and continues to run as sdf.org "In Noisy Digital Era, Elegant Internet Still Thrives". https://www.npr.org/2012/04/17/150817325/in-noisy-digital-era-elegant-internet-still-thrives.
* SF Net – was a coin-operated BBS accessible from select coffee shops located throughout the San Francisco Bay Area
* SMTH BBS – The largest BBS in China, hosted by Tsinghua University
* StarDoc 134 – DOS/Linux hybrid test BBS. Running modified ELEBBS software
* The Brewers' Witch BBS – Texas-based BBS catering to Pagan and Neopagan discussion and community
* TOTSE – Bay Area BBS known for large and often controversial selection of text files and internet discussion forum

## See also

* List of BBS software
* Boardwatch Magazine
* FidoNet

## Further reading

* Mark, Richard Scott (1996). Internet BBSs: a guided tour. ISBN 1-884777-30-9. https://archive.org/details/internetbbss00rich. via the Internet Archive.

## References

1. ↑ "EFF "Legal Cases - US v. Thomases - Amateur Action (AABBS), Memphis" Archive". https://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/AABBS_Thomases_Memphis/. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
* Rosenoer, Jonathan (2012). CyberLaw: The Law of the Internet. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 182–189. ISBN 978-0-387-94832-4. https://archive.org/details/cyberlawlawofint0000rose/page/182.
* "Off The Hook February 1992" (MP3). 2600: The Hacker Quarterly; WBAI (New York). 12 February 1992. http://www.2600.com/offthehook/1992/0292.html. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
* "Off The Hook May 1993" (MP3). 2600: The Hacker Quarterly; WBAI (New York). 19 May 1993. http://www.2600.com/offthehook/1993/0593.html. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
* "Off The Hook August 1994" (MP3). 2600: The Hacker Quarterly; WBAI (New York). 3 August 1994. http://www.2600.com/offthehook/1994/0894.html. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
* Conley, Chris; Johnson, Rob (24 July 1994). "The battle of digital pornography". The Telegraph; Scripps Howard News Service. p. G-4. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19940724&id=eYJKAAAAIBAJ&pg=1185,1657689&hl=en. "Memphis case may have effect on all online services"
* "High-tech case tests U.S. obscenity laws". Toledo Blade. Associated Press: p. 3. 21 July 1994. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19940721&id=CjQxAAAAIBAJ&pg=3800,5617104&hl=en. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
2. ↑ The Sex.com Chronicles. Prime Publishing. 14 March 2008. ISBN 978-1-4392-0101-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=ElCfIvDeDAIC&q=french+connection+bbs+legal+case=en&pg=PA44.
3. ↑ "Gay Organizations Displaying a Growing Influence In Suburbs". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/06/17/gay-organizations-displaying-a-growing-influence-in-suburbs/aeec529b-7621-4c2c-bd22-5c7a3ad5b30d/.
4. ↑ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse) (1 November 1994). A Guide to Selected HIV- and AIDS-Related Information Services in the U. S.. DIANE Publishing Company. p. 40. ISBN 9780788114687.
5. ↑ "Big Changes Coming To The Internet When NSF Pulls Plug". Reno Gazette-Journal. September 19, 1994. p. 42. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/153328501/. Retrieved 1 May 2017.

## External links

* BBS: The Documentary
* List of bulletin board systems at Curlie
* TEXTFILES.COM Historical BBS List \- A collection of BBS numbers from the past 20 Years
* Roblist \- An article on (and extract of) "Roblist", the de facto BBS list for South Africa active until 1996.
* Telnet BBS Guide \- The largest active listing of Telnet accessible Bulletin Board Systems on the Internet (since 1997)
* bbs-scene.org bbs list active boards c. 2013 (via Wayback Machine)

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