▓▒░ Evansville BBS

Sources

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  1. [812] Jason Scott, "812 Area Code BBSes Through History," textfiles.com BBS list. Board names, numbers, years, software and the caller/sysop quotes on this site. http://bbslist.textfiles.com/812/ (archived copy)
  2. [EVV95] "Evansville Indiana BBS List, 812 Area Code, March 1995" (EVVIN503), put out from Digicom BBS. Archived at textfiles.com. http://www.textfiles.com/bbs/BBSLISTS/evvin.lst (archived copy)
  3. [NH] FidoNet nodelist history by Pavel Gulchouck (nodehist.fidonet.org.ua). Each node has its own page, linked from the board table. Last four digits of phone numbers are masked there. https://nodehist.fidonet.org.ua/
  4. [DIGI] Digicom BBS museum, Gary Barr's history site for Digicom BBS. https://digicombbs.com/
  5. [AUTER] Philip J. Auter, "User Gratifications from Media-Sponsored Community Bulletin Boards: A Field Test of an Early BBS," Electronic Journal of Communication 11(2), 2001. http://www.cios.org/EJCPUBLIC/011/2/01126.HTML (archived copy)
  6. [MED] "Courier BBS system," Cultural History of the Internet (2020). https://internet.medialities.org/2020/10/09/courier-bbs-system/
  7. [EOL] Lieberman Technologies, "Evansville Online at 20 - A Retrospective" (Dec 2014). https://ltnow.com/blog/evansville-online/
  8. [WAD] Wad Archive, readme for the "Chanesaw" Doom levels by Stephen Huff. https://www.wad-archive.com/wad/a0d88cc3d667bd95049ee9cc5d0a47e3a932a31b
  9. [BRR] Bufkin Ridge Ranch BBS website. https://br-ranchbbs.com/
  10. [WB] Internet Archive Wayback Machine captures: evansville.net (30 Mar 1997), digicom.com (2 Nov 1996), br-ranchbbs.com (24 Jan 2016). https://web.archive.org/
  11. [WS] The Windows Source BBS revival site, run by its original sysop Craig Kohler. Art from the board's own backup. https://windowssourcebbs.com
  12. [FIDO] FidoNet, Wikipedia. General background on how FidoNet worked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

FidoNet nodes cited

Each opens its history at nodehist.fidonet.org.ua:

[NH 1:2310/0] [NH 1:2310/1] [NH 1:2310/2] [NH 1:2310/3] [NH 1:2310/4] [NH 1:2310/5] [NH 1:2310/6] [NH 1:2310/7] [NH 1:2310/8] [NH 1:2310/9] [NH 1:2310/10] [NH 1:2310/11] [NH 1:2310/12] [NH 1:2310/13] [NH 1:2310/14] [NH 1:2310/15] [NH 1:2310/20] [NH 1:2310/40] [NH 1:2310/100] [NH 1:2310/101] [NH 1:2310/150] [NH 1:2310/200] [NH 1:2310/210] [NH 1:2310/220] [NH 1:11/15] [NH 1:11/40] [NH 1:2230/20] [NH 1:2230/120] [NH 1:2320/200] [NH 1:227/60]

Notes on the data