On January 1st, 2015, I shut down my BBS. (Yes, you read that date right. 2015, not 1995.) I’ve been messing around with BBSes for almost 35 years now. When I was just a little kid, my dad and his friends ran multiple BBSes. There was PC-X (which ran on a PC XT), the Backdoor BBS (which ran on our PC Jr.), and many others. In the mid-80s, several of my friends ran Commodore 64 BBSes (I think Jeff even ran one after hours for a while). My BBS, The Gas Chamber, didn’t go online until the 90s. It ran… (read more)