The Last Stop BBS, A Few Brief glipses, (1996)

This is a look at my old BBS, The Last Stop, that I ran from January to October of 1996 when I lived in Brantford. This ran on a 486 Computer running at 40 MHz on a 14.4 Kbps modem, using the Renegade BBS software. This was running on the Windows 3.1 OS. This video was taken while we had company so that's what you hear in the background, and I took a break from taping that to see what was happening on my BBS and someone happened to be logged into it, doing a few things. It's amazing how far we've come since then, as the internet really started taking off at this point as many of the BBSs at the time started slowing down as everyone seemed to go to the net, which is why I took mine down by October of that year. As a matter of fact, I still have a floppy with the BBS on it, zipped up which takes up about 900 or so KB, with the program and customized ANSI screens I made up for it, but no door games.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Brantford
• computer
• BBS
• Renegade
• software
• technology
• communication

[the7thchambers]

I ran a BBS in St Catharines tooo... it was called

The 7Th Chamber

Mabey you were a member?

[hans1019]

Actually when I shot this video of my BBS The Last Stop, I was living in Brantford at that time, back in like 1996

[CallOfDrewthulhu]

No profanity allowed, eh? People like you are what got my BBS kicked off WWIVLink, haha.

[dima9944]

Nice! Thanks for the flashback, and the old ansi graphics!!

[soboboo]

Mine was called The VIPER Project. :)

[finzgar420]

I was on Cambridge Micro from around 90-95. Good times

[Paperclown]

@hans1019: Have you looked at BBS's that let you connect through TCP from real hardware? There's a lot of them out there

[bowenskye]

Fantastic!



[davidjohn83]

its sooo beautiful

[lordtalon69]

EXITILUS ....fuck ya!

[Kargaroc286]

you know, because everyone needs the newest and slowest web browsers for all the forums nowadays.

I miss netscape 3, back when you wern't forced to upgrade.

[poobalus]

Awesome.. I use to run Renegade too.. Memories.. I had a 20MB hard drive!! lol