Collection · since 2002

Bulletin Boards and Early Networks

The dial-up communities that came before the web.

Bulletin board systems were run from spare rooms on a single phone line. Their message bases, file libraries and door games were the first online communities most people joined.

This collection preserves the boards themselves, recovered from their operators’ hard disks and backups, so that they can be visited as they were.

Records online
160
Made between
1980–2002
Collecting since
2002
  • 77 bit-exact
  • 46 complete
  • 7 reconstructed
  • 25 partial
  • 5 fragmentary