Dial-Up Isn't Dead: The Surprising People Keeping BBS Culture Alive in 2024
Across the country, a scrappy community of sysops and curious newcomers are firing up old modems, spinning up Telnet servers, and rediscovering the magic of text-based online communities. It turns out the slower, weirder early internet never really went away — it just went underground. We talked to the people keeping the dream alive.