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                               The USBBS LIST

                                Final Edition

                   A List of Computer Bulletin Board Systems

                                www.usbbs.org

                   Editor:  Pete Olympia    (1984-1988)
                   Editor:  Meade Frierson  (1988-1992)
                   Editor:  Bob Breedlove   (1992-1997)
                   Editor:  Brent Yandell   (1997-2004)

                         Published since June, 1984
                   (C)  Copyright 1997-2011  Brent Yandell
                             All Rights Reserved

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The USBBS List was a list of Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) published for twenty
years from 1984 to 2004.  The USBBS List contained listings of:
                 
*  Systems with a dial-up telephone number (1984 - 2004).
*  Systems with Telnet access (1997 - 2004).
*  Systems with Web access logins (1999 - 2004).

The USBBS List had two missions:

(1) The first mission was to be a starting point for someone looking for a BBS
to call. It was never the ambition of the USBBS List to list every BBS in 
existence or to include everything there was to know about a BBS which was 
listed. Such an attempt would have been futile at best.

(2) The second mission was that USBBS was always an absolutely free service to
the BBS community, both for BBS Sysops and for BBS users. There was never a 
charge for a BBS to be listed on the USBBS List, and there was never a charge
for a caller to use the USBBS List.


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                          *  A Brief USBBS History  *

1984: Pete Olympia, USBBS founder and first editor, started the "RBBS List" 
and later changed the name to "USBBS".  For many years it was also often
(mistakenly) called "Darwin's List", after the Darwin BBS run by Pete, which 
was the first home of the USBBS List.

1986: Meade Frierson becomes a USBBS co-editor, handling the "PC-Pursuit"
designations in USBBS. PC-Pursuit was a service of US Sprint which allowed 
callers to dial systems in and around major cities for a monthly fee.

1987: PCBoard becomes the most listed BBS software in USBBS. Previously, 
the most listed was RBBS. PCBoard would remained the most listed BBS 
software in USBBS for the next twelve years. USBBSDoor 1.0 released.

1988: Meade Frierson becomes the second USBBS editor. Robert Blacher dedicates
a node of his Computer Connections BBS to being the USBBS home BBS. The number 
of systems listed in USBBS tops 1000.

1991: Meade begins accepting USBBS updates at his Compuserve mail account
(a very early sign of the times to come?).

1992: Bob Breedlove becomes the third USBBS editor. Bob added a news file to
the USBBS archive, the first time USBBS was distributed with more than one 
file in the ZIP. The number of systems listed in USBBS tops 2000. The 100th 
edition of the USBBS List is published.

1993: The number of systems listed in USBBS tops 3000.

1994: Bob begins distributing USBBS on the Internet, first in Usenet then
as a FTP download. The number of systems listed in USBBS tops 4000.

1995: Bob begins the first USBBS web site under the Channel 1 BBS domain,
provided by Brian and Tess Miller.

1996: The number of listings tops 5000 on the USBBS List in June.

1997: Brent Yandell becomes the fourth USBBS editor, and immediately adds
Telnet addresses to the USBBS List.

1999:  Brent obtains the "www.usbbs.org" URL, and moves the web site to
space provided by Roy Timberman, a former Sysop. Web BBS Log-in addresses 
are added to the USBBS List. Wildcat/WinServer software becomes the most 
listed BBS software in USBBS.

2001: The 200th edition of the USBBS List is published. Meade Frierson,
the USBBS List's second editor, passed away in September of 2001.

2004:  As of June, USBBS has been published for 20 years. Synchronet becomes 
the most listed BBS software in USBBS. The 20th anniversary publication of 
the USBBS List was also the last time USBBS was published.




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