Hey, I was wanting to relive some of my early early years and I was wondering if there were any still active BBS boards with file sharing, the whole enchalada, boards, files, other stuff...cough...
Also, is there any use in bbs boards now?
Doom isn't just a game, it's an apocalypse survival simulator.
There should be no shortage of them running on Telnet servers.
And no, there's really not much a BBS can do that an equivalent Internet service cannot do significantly better. I guess they might serve as a useful way to keep something private.
There are still a lot of telnet ones out there.
If you want to telnet from a modern machine, I recommend SyncTERM:
http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/
Here's a fairly current list of Synchronet-based boards:
http://synchro.net/sbbslist.html
Here's some others:
http://bbs-scene.org/bbs_list.php
If you want to connect via an old DOS term program, you can use DOSBox and the built-in modem emulation, or you can play with Leif Bloomquist's BBS Server program:
http://www.jammingsignal.com/files/
It's intended for hosting, but it can also be configured for outgoing connections. If you have a DOS machine you can hook a null modem cable from it to a modern machine, use the BBS Server program to effectively convert the null modem into a network connection, and "Dial" (telnet) out from the DOS machine. Actually it works from basically any type of old machine with a serial port (Commodore/Amiga, Apple, etc).
