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vga256

today's archival/software preservation work -

i noticed that PCBoard BBS software's wikipedia article mentioned something kinda weird - that just before clark development went bankrupt in 1997, it was building a server called MetaWorlds... an attempt at bridging the ansi-based BBS with the WWW.

sadly, the software never made it out of beta, and was nowhere to be found.. until today it seems! i managed to dig it out of the glorious ibm wgam-wbiz collection, and i've uploaded a copy to IA:

archive.org/details/metaworlds

i honestly don't really understand what MetaWorlds does, so i'm hoping a PCBoard wiz manages to get it talking to their pcb instance, and lets us know how it all works.

Internet ArchiveMetaWorlds (Beta) Interactive Information Server for PCBoard : CDC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveFrom PCBoard.be:Metaworlds was an attempt by CDC to establish a BBS-like environment on the Internet, basically a closed, mailbox in HTML format online.Access...
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Wintermute_BBS

Out there, in the worrying world of today is a little #Zilog #Z80 computer with a mere 64KB of #RAM and running the #1970s CP/M operating system.

This little machine is connected to the #intertubes and it's serving a #singleuser #bulletinboardsystem for you, the worrying souls of #yesteryears to visit.

Take a break from today, connect like it's 1985 - here on RC-BOX BBS, the world's first and (currently) only #rc2014 based bulletin board system in the world!

Check out the #alttext or my #profile info for information on how to connect.

#bbs
#rc2014bbs
#rcbox

This screenshot features the ASCII Art welcome banner of RC-BOX BBS. The technical specs of the system are listed as well as an ASCII UFO which is sending a beam down to the specs listed. All in plain ASCII text. If you want to visit, use a VT100 capable Telnet client and connect to: rc2014.ddns.net:2014
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