does anyone still read messages on the board in 2026? or post?

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Hey Gwylbert!

On Sat, Jan 10 2026 22:45:44 -0600, you wrote:

does anyone still read messages on the board in 2026? or post?

Yes. But the real question here is, will you be back visiting that board in 2026 to read this reply to your message. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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Gwylbert wrote to All <=-

does anyone still read messages on the board in 2026? or post?

Yes.



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Re: Still active
By: Gwylbert to All on Sat Jan 10 2026 09:45 pm

does anyone still read messages on the board in 2026? or post?

Obviously not...

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Re: Re: Still active
By: Gamgee to Gwylbert on Sun Jan 11 2026 10:21 am

Gwylbert wrote to All <=-

does anyone still read messages on the board in 2026? or post?

Yes.

... He does the work of 3 Men...Moe, Larry & Curly

HI there, I just came to this BBS (mojos - bbs) that is out of Jackson Michigan and stopped by because I have been learning how bbs work. So yeah, there are people around it looks like, though it is not as popular as they were obviously from back in the era that the bbs was around.

Best wishes man and good to see people on these.

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Re: Still active
By: datGSguy to Gwylbert on Sun Jan 11 2026 04:58 pm

Re: Still active
By: Gwylbert to All on Sat Jan 10 2026 09:45 pm

does anyone still read messages on the board in 2026? or post?

Obviously not...

I am here ! I am not from the era of bbs. I am here because i came from the small web to check out what was on bbs and also it is a nice break from the internet.

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R4 wrote to Gamgee <=-

does anyone still read messages on the board in 2026? or post?

Yes.

HI there, I just came to this BBS (mojos - bbs) that is out of Jackson Michigan and stopped by because I have been learning how bbs work. So yeah, there are people around it looks like, though it is not as
popular as they were obviously from back in the era that the bbs was around.

Cool, glad to see you have interest. Certainly true that the BBS has
declined in popularity over the years, but they're still around.

Best wishes man and good to see people on these.

Thanks and same to you. Hope you stick around a bit.


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Re: Still active
By: R4 to datGSguy on Mon Jan 12 2026 04:44 am

Re: Still active

does anyone still read messages on the board in 2026? or post?

Obviously not...

I am here ! I am not from the era of bbs. I am here because i came from the small web to check out what was on bbs and also it is a nice break from the internet.

Welcome!! I first dialed out to another system in 79.

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Re: Still active
By: Gwylbert to All on Sat Jan 10 2026 09:45 pm

does anyone still read messages on the board in 2026? or
post?

what i like to do is find a post from 2-5 years ago. then
i reply to it. because it's "new to me". It keeps things active!
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What was the first bbs that you called in 79? Just curious. I started to called bbs'es in 1985 and believe the first system I called into was a CompuServe multi-line system. It was shrotly after claling into CompuServe that a friend of mine that worked at a local Radio Shack printed me out my first bbs list to start calling.

Charon
riverstyx.ddns.net:2323

Re: Re: Still active
By: Charon to datGSguy on Mon Jan 12 2026 04:33 pm

What was the first bbs that you called in 79? Just curious. I started to called bbs'es in 1985 and believe the first system I called into was a CompuServe multi-line system. It was shrotly after claling into CompuServe that a friend of mine that worked at a local Radio Shack printed me out my first bbs list to start calling.

I dont recall, the first was actually just a terminal connected to an accoustic mode. Ghostship was one of the early ones I remember. I was in the Silicon Valley. I started mine in late 82 on a c64 running frp.bbs. Later went to an amiga 2000 with 4 lines. Landed on an A4000T with a pme30 with 30 supra modems zip tied to chichen wire mounted to frames spaced from the wall to allow all around cooling. Also a T1.

Went from that to bay networks 5000 chasis with 48 port cards and a ds3. The BBS was mostly forgotten then in the background. Went from Bay Networks to Cisco 5200's, a coupla sun 6000's. And no freetime.

Now I run run synchronet. And playing with AI integration with synchronet. Like I have a debate message area that anything you post will be debated by three ai's in the messages, gemini, grok, and huggingface. I have a message base were ai's post daily BBS ideas (so far not very impressive). I have a news base were AI's post about their thoughts on the daily news.

I also have AI in some doors. Like I have something I call a holodeck. You enter the door, and tell it the kind of game (D&D, Traveller, Gamaworld, Boot Hill, etc) then some rules options, and difficulty. From like story mode, to nightmare difficulty. And the ai's litterally play DM/GM for you in adventures. Can even save your game.

So full circle, from hobby to hobby.

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Re: Re: Still active
By: Charon to datGSguy on Mon Jan 12 2026 04:33 pm

What was the first bbs that you called in 79? Just curious. I started to called bbs'es in 1985 and believe the first system I called into was a CompuServe multi-line system. It was shrotly after claling into CompuServe that a friend of mine that worked at a local Radio Shack printed me out my first bbs list to start calling.

The first BBS I called was the Datawarehouse in the mid 1980's.
the Sysop was Dennis Mott if I remember right.

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On 1/12/2026 11:33 AM, Charon wrote:

What was the first bbs that you called in 79? Just curious. I started to called bbs'es in 1985 and believe the first system I called into was a CompuServe multi-line system. It was shrotly after claling into CompuServe that a friend of mine that worked at a local Radio Shack printed me out my first bbs list to start calling.

Charon
riverstyx.ddns.net:2323

I remember connecting to compuserve. We had number assignments instead
of handles. I also remember having to get a part time job to pay the
phone bill! It was fun though connecting at 300 bps and watching the
text slowly scroll by. I believe in those days we called that reading
speed. I spend most of my paycheck at Radio Shack in the 80's. Thanks
for bringing back a great memory.
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Rixter wrote to Charon <=-

I remember connecting to compuserve. We had number assignments instead
of handles. I also remember having to get a part time job to pay the
phone bill!

I was lucky - when I was on Compuserve, my company had a support forum
on it, and we got 5 free, unlimited accounts to play with. I was
75300,1375 for many years.

In the Windows 3.1 era, there were nice GUI clients like WinCIM that
made it a little more user-friendly.




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Re: Re: Still active
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Rixter on Fri Jan 16 2026 08:16 am

Rixter wrote to Charon <=-

I remember connecting to compuserve. We had number assignments instead of handles. I also remember having to get a part time job to pay the phone bill!

I was lucky - when I was on Compuserve, my company had a support forum
on it, and we got 5 free, unlimited accounts to play with. I was
75300,1375 for many years.

In the Windows 3.1 era, there were nice GUI clients like WinCIM that
made it a little more user-friendly.

YOU were very lucky!
Rixter
telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23
http://ricksbbs.synchro.net:8080
IRC www.irccloud.com/irc/ricksbbs/channel/ricksbbs

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