Historical List of BBSes in the 440 Area Code --------------------------------------------- Created by TEXTFILES.COM From Many Sources 440-224-1916 | North Coast Connection | KINGSVILLE, OH (1996-2001) SYSOP | Brian Parks --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-233-4292 | The Amiga Workbench, The Amiga Workshop BBS | LORAIN, OH (1982-2001) SYSOP | Tom Maruschak --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-234-6088 | 3rd Ear BBS, Test for Echo | BEREA, OH (1982-2001) SYSOP | Kurt Tischer --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-237-0167 | N W S BBS, NWS | NORTH ROYALTON, OH (2001-2007) SYSOP | Marian Prucha SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-237-2116 | Lost Time BBS, Lost Time BBS | NORTH ROYALTON, OH (1982-2001) SYSOP | Donald Bendzik --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-237-9726 | NWS BBS | NORTH ROYALTON, OH (1982-1999) SYSOP | Marian Prucha --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-238-3130 | Spud's World BBS, Spud's World Services | STRONGSVILLE, OH (1994-2007) SYSOP | Raymond Kolman, Ray Kolman SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-257-7919 | The Bridge / Time Zone | Mentor, OH (1989-1991) SYSOP | Scott Pasternak (The Tank) & Mike Batt (The Bounty Hunter) SOFTWARE | SearchLight (#0816) COMMENTS | "It was a pleasure running this BBS with Mike... | Indeed, there were friendships formed among the users | that are still recollected to this day. I would like to | personally thank Mike Batt (CoSysOp), Eric Doubler | (Klousher), Chris Zunic (Swank), Mike Richner (SysOp of | Mystic Mountain BBS), Steve Hiner, Rob Coulter (The | Bard), Doug Norenberg, Ed Stange (SysOp of Firehouse | BBS), Dan Greathouse (SysOp of City Limits BBS), Dave | Drzewiecki, Andrew Metzler (Nightcrawler) and Kirk | Lesiacsek (Notcher). These were the users that mattered | most, made the BBS a success, and actually formed the | individual I have become. While those days of copy | sessions, phreaking, and warez seem distant, all of these | individuals still remain very real and important to me. | I wish I could do a better job at keeping in touch with | all of them." - Scott Pasternak --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-322-6047 | God's Work | ELYRIA, OH (1994-2001) SYSOP | Jack Urbansky --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-356-1772 | NAB Robot, Nat'l Echo Coord, Nerd's Nook II, Nerd's Nook | Mail | CLEVELAND, OH (1982-2001) SYSOP | Butch Walker, NAB Robot, B Walker --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-356-2739 | Medieval Realms | CLEVELAND, OH (1982-2001) SYSOP | Jon McKenzie --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-442-9327 | The Pleasure Dome | HILLCREST, OH (1982-2001) SYSOP | Jim Hellriegel --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-466-1151 | No Anchovies PC | GENEVA, OH (1982-2001) SYSOP | Frank Capo --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-526-9083 | AMCOM | BRECKSVILLE, OH (1998-1999) SYSOP | Bill Poissant, Bill Possant --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-526-9096 | AMCOM | BRECKSVILLE, OH (1998) SYSOP | Bill Possant --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-526-9480 | AMCOM, AMCOM (6 nodes) | BRECKSVILLE, OH (1982-2001) SYSOP | Bill Poissant SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-543-1866 | Smart Modem BBS | BAINBRIDGE GEAU, OH (1982-2001) SYSOP | Stan Newell --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-646-9573 | Tentacle Nation BBS | Mayfield Heights, Ohio (1995-2000) SYSOP | Purple Tentacle (J.R. Raith) SOFTWARE | Searchlight 4.5b COMMENTS | "I dearly miss my board. I ran Tentacle Nation and it | was never very popular. I had a 1-line SL registration | and I still have the harddrive with all of the | information for the system on it. I had lots of games... | I was a LoRD addict, heh. It's a shame that I eventually | had to get rid of that computer. I still have my | SearchLight disks and manual. I, one day, intend on | setting up a telnet BBS, but who knows if I ever will. | I've got the 486 to do it, though...

"Anyone | searching for me (for whatever reason) can e-mail | Jafit@Hotmail.com." - J.R. Raith" --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-655-9626 | Freedom BBS | WILLOUGHBY, OH (1982-2001) SYSOP | Brian Hart --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-693-4315 | WaZaBoo II BBS | MESOPOTAMIA, OH (2001-2002) SYSOP | A. Ratcheson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-779-1593 | Altered States/Ganja Mountain | North Olmsted, OH (1987-1992) SYSOP | The Boss SOFTWARE | C-Net COMMENTS | "Started off as an underground wares site. Was changed a | couple years later to a pure message board system, with | no online games to play or software for people to | download. It started off running on a Commodore 64. It | ran its last two years on a Commodore Amiga, with a 40 | megabyte hard drive. It was the first Commodore BBS that | strayed away from piracy and pushed forum activity." - | The Boss --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-808-9338 | Nerd's Nook, Nerd's Nook II | TRINITY, OH (1996-1998) SYSOP | Butch Walker --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-835-5763 | NE Ohio PC UserGroup , North East Ohio PC User Group | Westlake, OH (1995-2009) SYSOP | Joe Suhadolnik SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-838-5454 | Bill 'n Bob's | BRECKSVILLE, OH (1999-2001) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-845-3249 | Let's Talk BBS | VICTORY, OH (1982-2000) SYSOP | William DeFranco --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-888-8321 | Paradise BBS, Paradise BBS | VICTORY, OH (1995-2002) SYSOP | Brian Harbaugh SOFTWARE | Virtual --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-933-6165 | Avon Lake BBS | AVON LAKE, OH (1994-2000) SYSOP | John Doughtry --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-942-3876 | Analyt. Engine, Analytical Engine , Analytical Engine BBS | WILLOUGHBY, OH (1991-2002) SYSOP | Phil Roberts SOFTWARE | Telegard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-954-9235 | Midnight BBS | WILLOUGHBY, OH (1988-2002) SYSOP | Night Warrior SOFTWARE | CNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-967-4391 | Dark Worlds | Vermilion, OH (1993-1996) SYSOP | R. Kingsboro COMMENTS | Wildcat 1993-1994, Searchlight (RIP 2.0) 1994-1996. As | far as I know, and as far as I was concerned, I had the | best GUI I had ever seen, including page transition | animations, pop-up windows, and scripted everything. It's | a sad shame that the RIPscrip protocol never took off | with more systems, and it wasn't long after RIP 2.0 was | released that both dial-up and telnet BBS'ing died off. | Things may have been different if BBSes had used RIP to | keep up with HTML's user-friendly functionality..." - R. | Kingsboro --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 440-998-1453 | Reality's Playroom | ASHTABULA, OH (1996-2000) SYSOP | Christopher Mitchell --------------+-----------------------------------------------------------