Bulletin board system
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Sep 10, 2026
Zac BeaudoinGUEST
And I learned how to set up Apple talk networks.
Zac BeaudoinGUEST
Like as a preteen, I learned how to access BBSs through dial up modems.
Zac BeaudoinGUEST
And from there I could find, you know, for the games that I loved, I could find map editors or hex editors.
Zac BeaudoinGUEST
And I would basically hack my way through like game modding.
Rich RobertsHOST
So, um, okay, so we're gonna go into the disk file browser, and there's our, our, uh, our, uh, cassette USB stick.
Rich RobertsHOST
We're gonna enter, and there's the BBS.
Rich RobertsHOST
We're gonna hit enter.
Rich RobertsHOST
We're gonna go down to ultimate, and this is going onto the bulletin boards using a Commodore 64.
Rich RobertsHOST
We'll load settings.
Rich RobertsHOST
Yes, we got that.
Rich RobertsHOST
We'll go ahead and run the disk here, and we'll bring up our BBS.
Rich RobertsHOST
And there's our BBS.
Matty MadisonHOST
Didn't wanna d- didn't wanna ruin it for everyone, but yeah, it's, uh, just wanted to get it out there.
Matty MadisonHOST
What was the process like for them getting in touch with you, either of you? Oh, bulletin board, message board, BSB.
Luka DaleGUEST
[laughs]
Matty MadisonHOST
Like-
Taylor EdwardsGUEST
I got, I got a message through account number.
Matty MadisonHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Taylor EdwardsGUEST
You got it through BSB.
Matty MadisonHOST
That's right.
Stephen CraveyGUEST
I think around there Neuromancer came out, and I think I got a copy of Neuromancer a, a year or so after that.
Stephen CraveyGUEST
But, you know, it definitely started out early and, you know, from there it was just sort of like a bobsled of, of technology and, you know, learning, learning how to write software in new languages.
Stephen CraveyGUEST
Ran BBSs for a while.
Stephen CraveyGUEST
Did some more programming.
Stephen CraveyGUEST
Went to school for computer engineering because I thought I wanted to do silicon design.
Stephen CraveyGUEST
Actually I'll show you how big it is.
Stephen CraveyGUEST
Look right there you can see my rainbow books on the shelf.
Stephen CraveyGUEST
And, you know, that, that got me into information security pretty soundly, like especially in the context of the stuff I'd done on BBSs and, you know, some, some stuff I'd...
Geoff OwenHOST
I wanted to ask you a question about this.
Geoff OwenHOST
Number eight, BBS, Jane Seymour.
Steve McNeilGUEST
I've got no
Geoff OwenHOST
idea.
Steve McNeilGUEST
I mean, BBS says bulletin board to me, but that can't be what it is.
Geoff OwenHOST
Or is
Steve McNeilGUEST
it?
Steve McNeilGUEST
But I didn't.
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Brandon SchechsneiderHOST
When the internet began, bulletin board services, or BBS, became the first online communities of the so-called information superhighway.
Brandon SchechsneiderHOST
Using their phone lines, people logged in from all over America to talk about sports, games, movies, and on one BBS in particular, share their ghost stories.
Brandon SchechsneiderHOST
Over time, those communities all went dark, except for one lone server that continues to operate somewhere in an unknown part of Pennsylvania's Rust Belt.
Brandon SchechsneiderHOST
A relic of the 1990s, veiled in mystery, it is a digital archive of humanity's strangest encounters with the unknown, as told by the people who experienced them.
JasonHOST
It's available in English.
JasonHOST
It's a series of letters, articles, descriptions of web shows and BBS message boards, messages.
JasonHOST
That
JohnHOST
was a little bit before my time.
JohnHOST
it.
JohnHOST
Because that was like early 90s, late 80s.
JohnHOST
BBS was early 90s.
JasonHOST
Yeah, early, mid 90s.
Kenny WebsterHOST
It was to have more.
Kenny WebsterHOST
People built their own BBSs.
Kenny WebsterHOST
They were called bulletin board systems.
Steve JohnsonHOST
Ooh, BBS was Bob's Barbershop where I grew up.
Vena Jones-CoxHOST
That's right, all those tones.
Vena Jones-CoxHOST
Yeah, on the BBS.
Vena Jones-CoxHOST
And it was so crazy because it was so much easier just to talk on the phone because there was such a lag.
Vena Jones-CoxHOST
You know, if we're talking to each other on the BBS by typing, there's such a lag that it would have been easier to pick up the phone.
Vena Jones-CoxHOST
But, you know, it was a toy.
Vena Jones-CoxHOST
It was a toy the same way that a lot of people are using AI as a toy right now.
Paulina BorsookGUEST
I don't see what one has to do with the other.
Paulina BorsookGUEST
And because, you know, I'm chronically ill and often have been housebound, I was really grateful when I got online when I was at 1984. when it was BBSs and stuff like that.
Paulina BorsookGUEST
If you're housebound and isolated, being able to communicate with people all over the world was great.
Paulina BorsookGUEST
But that's not buying a package of beliefs.
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