Pi Projects: BBS Client

In a digital world, before the Internet was a common household name, there existed a connected community of surfers. These individuals didn’t surf the WWW, instead they dialled up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) and opened a whole new world of content.

WARGAMES If you’re old enough to recall, or have since watched, the excellent movie Wargames, then you’ll be roughly familiar with the way in which a Bulletin Board System works; and if you haven’t watched Wargames, then we recommend you get hold of it. In the movie, the young protagonist spends his days at the keyboard of his early 80s computer, using his modem to dial into remote systems. Once inside these remote systems, he then goes about traversing the remote host’s file system looking for anything interesting. The movie plot aside, this, essentially, is how a BBS works. It’s a remote computer that runs specialist BBS server software with a mix of content either pre-installed, or added by the system admin (sysadmin or sysop). A user of the BBS…

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