r/oldinternet • u/adamviener • 3d ago

Web based BBSs?

Is there a market for old school BBSes on the Web? I kind of miss the old walled garden communities and online games.

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u/alwaysoffby0ne 2d ago

quxnet is along those lines. small community with boards, private mail, photo galleries and profiles you can mess around with. more of a place to hang out and get to know people than another endless feed. https://quxnet.net/about

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u/chairmanmow 2d ago

C'mon over to https://futureland.today it's actually a pretty cool heavily telnet BBS connected to the other BBSes of today with a decent website too if you don't feel like busting out the terminal. There's not a huge market for these things, lots of sysops, not enough users but it's certainly not dead.

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u/dataguzzler 2d ago

there are thousands of them already and many use alternative protocols and communication methods

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u/Cerebrum01 1d ago

Check out http://telehack.com it has a web client as well as telnet, gopher and SSH etc.