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Citadel history thread LETS GO!

been racking my brain trying to remember what all the networked rooms were, here's a list from an amiga board in August 1991

Citadel style BBSs may not have been that popular overall, but they maintained pockets of rabid popularity in a variety of major cities

Citadel-86 gained its own federated networking as early as 1986, (a mere few years after FidoNet began!) quickly becoming a mainstay of many Citadel BBSs

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays

for how many retro BBSs are out there now, maybe two of them are Citadel?

doing my part, and attempting to resurrect Citadel-86, widely used in its (and my) hometown of the Minneapolis 612 and beyond, and root of many later Citadel forks

does anyone out there remember these?

tell me your stories because they are rapidly being lost to internet decay

did you notice bbsmates is gone?

Citadel-86 is now borderline lost media, the last version is MIA along with some extra tools for database resize and the Ease config tool

does anyone have them? check those dusty floppies

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays

He’s not just wearing shades—he’s scanning for callers. Plug in, power up, and relive the Atari/Atascii glory.

southernamis.ddns.net: port 23
#Telnet • Dial • Web
#Atari / Atascii only for the true retro vibe

Come for the graphics, stay for the chaos.
Southern Amis BBS — where yesterday is always online.

#SouthernAmis #Atari8bit #Atascii #BBSing #RetroComputing #dialupdays

In the 90s and early 2000s, before broadband took over, ISPs offered dial-up access through thousands of local phone numbers. Hackers and phreakers quickly realized these numbers could be exploited. By war-dialing exchanges and identifying modem handshakes, they could find valid ISP numbers, brute-force login credentials, and gain free internet access. Some would spoof caller ID or trick authentication systems into thinking they were paying customers. Entire lists of “free ISP dialups” circulated underground forums and BBSes, allowing global access through someone else’s phone bill or corporate lines.

This method was eventually curbed as ISPs upgraded authentication, moved to centralized radius servers, and broadband made dial-in obsolete. But for a brief time, exploiting dial-in access was a gateway to the early internet.

#Phreaking #DialupDays #HackTheNet #OldSchoolHacking #InternetHistory #BBS #ISPHacks