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BBS

A classic Bulletin Board System โ€” message boards, chat, and games.

SSH

Dial In, Hang Out

Message boards, chat, door games, and that sweet modem handshake — the good old days, online, with all the beeps and none of the feed algorithms.
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What is a BBS?

A Bulletin Board System (BBS) is one of the earliest forms of online community, dating back to the late 1970s. Users connect via SSH (historically dial-up modems and Telnet) to read messages, play games, and chat โ€” all through a text-based terminal interface.

๋น„๋น„์—์Šค(BBS)๋Š” 1970๋…„๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ฐ˜๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ํ˜•ํƒœ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋„ 1980๋…„๋Œ€ PCํ†ต์‹ ์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฒŒ์‹œํŒ, ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฐฉ, ์ž๋ฃŒ์‹ค ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฌธํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ž๋ฆฌ์žก์•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๊ฐ์„ฑ์ด ์ง€๊ธˆ์˜ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ๋ธ” BBS๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ „์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ…์ŠคํŠธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„์—์„œ ๊ฒŒ์‹œํŒ์„ ์ฝ๊ณ , ๊ฒŒ์ž„์„ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ดํ•˜๊ณ , ์ฑ„ํŒ…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค์ด์–ผ์—… ๋ชจ๋Ž€/ํ…”๋„ท ๋Œ€์‹  SSH๋กœ ์ ‘์†ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฐ•์Šค(Iyagi DOSBox)๋กœ ์ ‘์†ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์–ด, ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฐ•์Šค๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜ˆ์ „ ๋ชจ๋Ž€ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ์ธํ„ฐํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋Š” ์•„๋ž˜์—์„œ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‹คํ–‰ํ™”๋ฉด์„ ๋ณด์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:
https://bbs.runable.app

🇰🇷 ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ๋ธ” ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋น„๋น„์—์Šค (Korean) ssh -p 10000 bbs.runable.app
🇺🇸 Runable English BBS ssh -p 10001 bbs.runable.app

Disclaimer: This service is free to use but requires registration and account approval. Users are responsible for the content they post. Runable.app is not responsible for user-generated content, third-party materials, or any loss or damages related to using this service.
BBS

How To Register

Create an account in a few steps after you connect.

  1. Connect to the BBS.
  2. Log on as guest.
  3. Follow the prompts: fill in your email, user ID, password, and nickname.
  4. Wait for the verification email and click the link in that message.
  5. Wait for the confirmation email.

Terms of Service

By using this BBS service, you agree to the following terms:

  • You must provide accurate account information and keep your credentials secure.
  • You are fully responsible for all content posted from your account.
  • No file upload/download sharing is allowed on this service.
  • No illegal, abusive, hateful, discriminatory, sexually explicit, obscene, foul-language, spam, or copyright-infringing content is allowed.
  • Do not harass, threaten, impersonate, or defame other users.
  • Service access may be suspended or revoked for policy violations or abuse.
  • The service is provided as-is without warranty; availability may change without notice.
  • Runable.app is not liable for any direct or indirect loss, damage, or legal disputes arising from user posts or use of this service.

What to Expect

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Message Boards

Threaded discussion forums for conversations on any topic โ€” the original online community.

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Chat

Join real-time chat areas to talk with other users, meet new people, and keep conversations active.

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Door Games

Classic text-based multiplayer games like Legend of the Red Dragon, TradeWars, and more.

GUI Clients

Desktop applications for connecting to BBS systems with a graphical interface.

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์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฐ•์Šค (Iyagi DOSBox)Highly Recommended

Win, Mac, Linux โ€” Runable's own software package for retro communication, recreating classic Korean DOS-era online workflows on modern systems. Korean language only โ€” the interface and usage model assume Korean readers. Specialized for Runable.app's BBS for authentic BBS-style interaction. ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋„๋ฆฌ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ํ†ต์‹  ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์˜ ์ •์„œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ๋ธ” ํ•œ๊ธ€ ๋น„๋น„์—์Šค ์ „์šฉ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Iyagi DOSBox page →

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SyncTERM Recommended

Win, Mac, Linux โ€” The go-to BBS terminal. Supports SSH, Telnet, and RLogin with full ANSI, RIP, and Petscii graphics. Built specifically for BBS access.

syncterm.bbsdev.net →

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NetRunner

Windows โ€” A modern BBS terminal with RIP graphics support, ANSI music, and a tabbed interface for connecting to multiple boards at once.

mysticbbs.com →

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PuTTY

Win, Linux โ€” Not BBS-specific, but a rock-solid SSH/Telnet client that works well for text-mode BBS access. Universally available.

putty.org →

CLI & TUI Clients

Terminal-based tools for connecting to BBS systems from the command line.

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ssh

Win, Mac, Linux โ€” The simplest way to connect. OpenSSH is built into macOS/Linux; Windows includes it as an optional feature. Basic but functional for text-mode boards.

ssh -p 22 bbs.example.com  or  sudo apt install openssh-client

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EtherTerm

Win, Mac, Linux โ€” An SDL-based terminal emulator with full ANSI/Xterm support. Designed for BBS and MUD connections with modern rendering.

GitHub →  โ€”  build from source