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index [2023/04/28 15:09] – [Welcome] Add link to video: The Computer Chronicles - Modems & Bulletin Boards (1985) digital manindex [2024/12/02 17:22] (current) – Updated the "about" blurb digital man
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       - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0OwGSX2IiQ|Al's Geek Lab: Back to the BBS]]       - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0OwGSX2IiQ|Al's Geek Lab: Back to the BBS]]
       - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb7te_HZyiA|The Computer Chronicles - Modems & Bulletin Boards (1985)]]       - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb7te_HZyiA|The Computer Chronicles - Modems & Bulletin Boards (1985)]]
 +      - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxKF681vI9U|Hackfest 2024 - aNACHRONiST - Bulletin Board Systems in the Modern Era and Beyond]]
   * Articles:   * Articles:
     - [[https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/the-lost-civilization-of-dial-up-bulletin-board-systems/506465/|The Atlantic: The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems]]     - [[https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/the-lost-civilization-of-dial-up-bulletin-board-systems/506465/|The Atlantic: The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems]]
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 ===== About Synchronet ===== ===== About Synchronet =====
  
-Synchronet BBS Software is a free software package that can turn your personal computer (or computing device, e.g. Raspberry Pi) into your own custom online service supporting multiple simultaneous users with hierarchical message and file areas, multi-user chat, and the ever-popular BBS door games.+Synchronet BBS Software is a free software package that can turn your personal or hosted computer (or computing device, e.g. Raspberry Pi) into your own custom online service supporting multiple simultaneous users with hierarchical message and file areas, multi-user chat, and the ever-popular BBS door games.
  
-Synchronet development began as a personal hobby in 1990 for single-tasking MS-DOS compatible computers and Hayes compatible modems. The program was sold commercially from 1992 to 1996 after which time it was released (with source code) for both the 16-bit DOS and 32-bit OS/2 platforms to the public domain and development by the [[person:digital man|author]] was ceased.+Synchronet development began as a personal hobby in 1990 for single-tasking MS-DOS compatible computers and Hayes-compatible phone modems. The program was sold commercially from 1992 to 1996 after which time it was released (with source code) for both the 16-bit DOS and 32-bit OS/2 platforms to the public domain and development by the [[person:digital man|author]] was paused.
  
-In November of 1999, the author found a renewed interest in further developing Synchronet, specifically for the Internet community, embracing and integrating standard Internet protocols such as Telnet, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IRC, NNTP, and HTTP. Synchronet has since been substantially redesigned as an Internet BBS package for Windows and Unix [[http://synchro.net/docs/platforms.html|platforms]] and is an [[dev:source|Open Source]] project under continuous development.+In November of 1999, the author found a renewed interest in further developing Synchronet, specifically for the Internet community, embracing and integrating standard Internet protocols such as Telnet, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IRC, NNTP, and HTTP. Synchronet has since been substantially redesigned as an Internet BBS package for modern [[http://synchro.net/docs/platforms.html|computing platforms]] and is an [[dev:source|Open Source]] project under continuous development.
  
-Synchronet Version 3.1x for Windows and Unix is available for [[http://synchro.net/download.html|download]] now and can be previewed on [[bbs:Vertrauen]] (Home of Synchronet BBS Software).+Synchronet Version 3 for Windows and Unix-like OSes is available for [[http://synchro.net/download.html|download here]] and can be previewed on [[bbs:Vertrauen]] (Home of Synchronet BBS Software).
  
  

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