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Bulletin Board Systems
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16colo.rs, a website dedicated to preserving ANSI and ASCII text art, is drawing attention online. The archive collects artwork made entirely from text characters, a creative form that flourished on bulletin board systems in the 1980s and 1990s. Enthusiasts are sharing the collection and reminiscing about the early computing era it documents.
- 2Developer builds a tiny BBS entirely in Bash●- : Say hello to BashBBS! : - Is this just stupid? I've made a really small BBS using just Bash and whatever a bare-bone
A developer has created BashBBS, a small bulletin board system built using only Bash scripts and the tools included with a bare-bones Debian install. It runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, and the maker is inviting others to try it by filling out a request form, approving access manually. They are asking openly whether the project is 'stupid', a self-deprecating nod to hobbyist retro-computing.