Mirkwood BBS

I had my own BBS once. A long time ago. It was in the tradition of Lothlorien BBS, where people can come to exchange views. It was started with the aim of continuing the good tradition of Lothlorien, but somehow, it was started when the time of BBSs was at an end. It was the beginning of the age of Internet. Thus, Mirkwood never really did take off.

It was a dabble in setting up and running my own BBS. Together with my brother, we set up RemoteAccess (check out what Wikipedia has on this) as the BBS software, and installed the BlueWave maildoor to enable offline mail reading. My brother did the ANSI graphics for the BBS, since he was good in art. The BBS was open to only our friends, since it was still in an experimental stage and still doing a lot of testing. But before it took off, most people had lost interest in BBSs and were moving on to the Internet. And thus, Mirkwood died from neglect.

All that was more than 10 years ago. The ANSI graphics for Mirkwood has since been lost, as the old computer which Mirkwood resided on was discarded... or is it still lying somewhere?