The purpose of the history section is for people who lived through the "Golden Age" of BBSes to write about their experience. They can write about it from the point of view of someone looking back, or they can try to recreate the feelings they had when they went through it in childhood (or early adulthood).

A real nice bonus would be if people who wrote some of the textfiles on this site could cross-reference them and discuss what they were trying to achieve with the file, or give some context and perspective to the time the file was written.

Filename	Size	Description of the Textfile
EVILEXIDY		Mirror of Apple 2 Memory Page by Evil Exidy (August, 2005) It is rare that I am compelled to mirror an entire page of history, including graphics, but this is one of the best compilations of someone's apple memories I've seen.
apsnet.txt	3620	History of the APSNET BBS, by Russ Dale (2003)
basehead.txt	38319	Eight Years of Glory *sic* a.k.a. How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Scene a.k.a. Babehead 2: A Tracker In The City, by Basehead
c0dez.txt	63056	Diary of a C0dez Kid, by Dark Sorceror (February 20, 2001)
chickenheadbbs.txt	22139	The BBS Universe from the Perspective of a Simple Pleb, by Chickenhead (July, 2004)
crazy.txt	3940	The Legend of the Crazy Horse BBS, by Tim Grzechowski (November, 2004)
cybrtrsh.txt	37385	Cyberthrash (Story)
dalive	5273	"Dead Alive" by the Extremist, about the way BBSes changed with the Internet (March 12, 2000)
deadlysins.txt	10747	The Days of the Deadly Sins BBS, by Sysop Edward Crouser (2002)
draxamus.txt	4235	I Was Just Thinking, by Draxamus (June, 2005)
exidy.txt	6273	The Adventures of Evil Exidy and his Apple II Computer
exylic.txt	4650	Some BBS Memories by Exylic Xyth (September 20, 2005)
golnar.txt	15990	BBS Life in the 1980's by Scott (Golnar/Mr. Pez) (March, 2000)
hack7.txt	52648	Computer Hackers: Rebels with a Cause, by Tanja S. Rosteck (April 27, 1994)
hackingcracking.txt	87956	The History of Hacking and Cracking, by Hack3r02 (2007)
hackmorality.txt	83627	Hacking Morality, by Timothy Campbell (1995)
happyhack.txt	10796	What in the World is a Happy Hacker BBS? By David Bucci (2001)
hermsys.txt	2348	What Are Hermes Sysops? (November 1, 2001)
heroic.txt	2027	Memories from John Touzios (January, 2006)
iremember	3093	I remember Those Days, by raindog151 (March 28, 2000)
jayjay.txt	7505	JayJay's Story (The History of T-Net) by John Hrusovszky (2001)
jimhood.txt	9846	C-Net and the MajorBBS, by James Hood (February, 2002)
jon.txt	4822	Jon's Story of His Time on the BBSes (October 7, 2001)
kilroy	2929	My experiences, by King Kilroy (May 17, 2000)
lansing.txt	5992	Some Memories of Lansing Michigan BBSes, by Robin Hood (Jason Artman) (December, 2005)
lifeonledge.txt	19195	Ten Years on the Ledge, by Joseph Sheppard of the Ledge PC-Board BBS (2004)
lipkovits.txt	13525	Some BBS Memories by Rowan Lipkovits (May 1, 2005)
mindvox	66115	Mindvox: The Overture (Voices in My Head) by Patrick Karel Kroupa (Lord Digital)
minn.txt	21622	Adventures in BBSing: BBSing Nostalgia in the Twin Cities. from Sash (2000)
modemlife.html	21331	Thoughts on "The Modem Life: Is it Really Worth it?" by Bryan Nomad (January 19, 2002)
modemwld.txt	11323	The Modem World, by Charles P. Hobbs of the Blue Cafe (2000)
mog-history	25260	A History of BBSes and BBSing from 1990 to the Present, by Mogel (February, 2000)
moore.txt	7991	Fonts of Youth, by Michael Moore (1994)
msorrow	41151	The Story of Midnight Sorrow, by Michael Waas (1991-Present)
namaste.txt	3707	An Oral History of Alternative Lifestyles BBSes and Other Facts, from Namaste Master (October, 2004)
nameisreo.txt	22043	My Name is Reo: A Look at How the Electronic Me Was Born, by Tom Hare (July 7th, 2000)
necropls.txt	8134	The BBS Scene of Canton, Ohio, by Tom Bryant (September 3, 2001)
netmask.txt	4777	What are these things that the old guys talk about... BBS's? by Netmask (May, 1999)
onan.txt	8337	About the T.A.R.D.I.S. BBS, by Thomas O'Nan (November 17, 2006)
pat.txt	6049	My "Old Days Rant" by Patrick Guenette (June 18, 2001)
phxbbs-m.txt	36260	A History of the Golden Age of the Phoenix, AZ BBS Scene, by Mirage (March 25, 2004)
planetzero.txt	6412	The History of the Planet-Zero BBS, by Benjamin Hauger (October, 2003)
proudlyserve.txt	20578	Excerpt from "Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters: What I Learned in Ten Years as a Microsoft Programmer" by Adam David Barr (2000)
radexposed.txt	12368	Radioactive Aardvark Dung Exposed, by Mercuri of RAD (May 9, 2001)
reeves.txt	17141	Memories of a BBS Childhood, by Steve Reevers (January, 2003)
sawyer.txt	8981	Memories of the USS Enterprise BBS by Mike Sawyer (October, 2002)
silverclaws.txt	3872	Xao Silverclaw's Story of Barking Pizza (August, 2004)
stressman.txt	13862	Some Memories and a BBS List, by Justin Stressman (July 1, 2005)
thievco.txt	20677	The Story and the Truth about the Thievco BBS (And Computer Security in General) by the Blue Boar (August 28, 1998)
three.txt	6749	The Story of Two BBSes, Three BBS Names and Three Sysops, by Bill Mertens (August 15, 2001)
ukunderg.txt	23530	A Brief History and Guide to the UK Underground Scene, by Paris of Soljo Publishing (August, 2004)
whatbbs	4816	The Internet's Full Effect on BBS Use, by Mark Robbins of the Second Sanctum BBS (January 1, 1996)
yuban.txt	5465	Memories of Bowling for Jesus, by Reverend Ed Yuban (January 19, 2003)

There are 52 files for a total of 950,487 bytes.

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I hope to have this section grow to be one of the most complete and popular parts of this site. If you want to contribute, please don't hesitate to write to me.