BBS Capture from 1995 - Serotonin BBS

Serotonin BBS as it looked like approximately in December of 1995! Running Renegade software, Servility (the sysop) changed to PCBoard a short while after this.

The good ole days of BBS'ing.

Serotonin was in the 519 area code (kitchener/waterloo), and was one of the better BBS's. 3 nodes under OS/2!!

Guess 80x25 TEXT doesnt show too well in the small youtube video window. Oh well, its still somewhat readable.

Posted for nostalgia.

Blame youtube for the weird video playback, if it doesnt play back properly, just skip ahead a couple seconds and then it should play fine.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• serotonin
• BBS
• 519
• kitchener
• waterloo
• servility
• grazzt
• timebomb
• dreamlord
• 1995
• dialup
• dial-up
• modem
• nostalgia
• pcboard
• renegadebbs
• ansi

[zunni74]

One of the K-W BBS's I don't think I had access to..

[grazzt519]

No, dont think you were. Then again, I was more into the bbs scene in kw. :/

and btw, I still have the spitfire binder.

[DigitalMind66]

Wow what a blast from the past ! :) The BBS days were some of the best times of my life.  The internet is so much better, yet like Ryan said it killed the BBS era and I hate it for that.

I ran a 3 node Renegade BBS that also switched over to PCBoard after a few years. THE DARK ZONE was my board located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

I'm having flashbacks of Deskview to multi-task in DOS and needing to disable my mouse and sound card so I can have available com ports for multiple modems! :)

[taonaut]

Ah the beauty of ANSI-graphics=)

[abovethefirehouse]

good ol netrerm from DiNK terminal

[kyle589]

Yea I used to run a PCBoard BBS myself. Switched from Wildcat I believe. Was good times. Never thought I could enjoy text based games like I did back then. I remember Legend of the Red Dragon I believe was the big one. I experimented alil with RIP graphics but they usually took forever to load but ansi was simple and could be gorgeous.

[davidjohn83]

so amazing

[BrooklynHD]

lol @ 35 disks

[grazzt519]

Cant say I remember your board, but then again, K-W/Cambridge had a ton of boards back then.

Yeah, the good ole days, Zmodem, HSLink, ATDT.. etc :)

Did you have a handle you used back then?