"It was run by Will, a 14-15 year | old, out of his parents basement, for a little over a | year; the phone line and hardware were funded by a 2 mile | long news paper delivery route for the Daily Gleaner.
| "It had one phone line, and averaged one call per hour, | though occasionally exceeded 40 calls a day.
"Wills | Dungeon shared a messaging forum with GateWay (operated | by Trevor Rivet), using the VNet technology that was part | of VBBS. Every morning around 3am, Wills Dungeon would | call GateWay and transfer email and forum messages | destined for other VNet users. In this way you could | send an email from Wills Dungeon (or GateWay) to anyone | on the planet (provided they were hooked up to VNet).
| "Some of the most popular games were Legend on the Red | Dragon, Barren Realms Elite, and TradeWars 2000 (all | registered).
"While not a warez site, Wills Dungeon | distrubuted a lot of custom made applications written by | Will, and some of the other younger programmers in the | Fredericton area. Two of the more popular were 'VGADraw' | and 'VSCRIPT'. A BBS member eventually added mouse | support to VGADraw, which was kind of cool back then, | making it an 'open source' collaboration. lol
| "VGADraw was a bitmap drawing program, and VSSCRIPT was a | vector based drawing program.
"One of the | applications on the site got the BBS in to a bit of | trouble with the local police. Will had written a | program to create 'ANSI Bombs' and posted it on the BBS. | Essentially, the program would let someone embeded | character remapping in to an ANSI file/animation they | had. In this way, you could remap the keyboard so that | the key 'a' would go 'dir c:\'.
"Someone, we'll call | him 'Bob', downloaded the program, and used to it to | create bomb that would format the primary hard-disk. Bob | was having trouble with someone else from school, and | sent him this 'bomb'. Long story short, someones hard | drive got formatted. The police got involved, and 'Bob' | told them he used Wills program to create the 'bomb'. | The police called Will and had a rather lengthy, but | surprisingly nice, discussion with him about such things. | The program came down shortly there after, with no hard | feelings.
"The BBS eventually met it's demise once | the Sysop got his drivers license." - Evil --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-453-9182 | Cyber Net | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Robbie Moore --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-454-3034 | Genfab BBS | Fredericton, NB (1994-1996) SYSOP | Totty & Mighty Mouse SOFTWARE | VBBS COMMENTS | "A great little BBS that had probably the busiest line | in town. We tried to expand to a 2nd line at one point, | but things fell apart when one of our main hard disks | died on us. Guess it was never meant to be! It was fun | while it lasted." - Totty --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-454-3722 | Tony's Place | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1993) SYSOP | Ken Washburn --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-454-3752 | The BlackRose Society | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Stephen Townsend --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-454-3772 | Tony's Place | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | Ken Washburn --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-454-3931 | Gateway VBBS | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1993-1998) SYSOP | Trevor Rivett --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-454-5773 | Electro Blast, ElectroBlast BBS (Node 1), ElectroBlast BBS | (Node 2) | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1997-2003) SYSOP | Jean Letourneau SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-455-1073 | Meganet | Fredericton, NB (1988-1997) SYSOP | Face SOFTWARE | Renegade, Iniquity COMMENTS | "When i first started it, there were many BBS's around | town. though, hey yeah I want to try it to. I was | hooked, nothing like staying up all night drawing new | ANSI graphics for your board =) .. Ran many multi-bbs | door games, and joined FIDO net. LORD was the most | popular door game, and was really great in multi-bbs | gaming. In my opinion there is nothing that can compare | to a bbs today. A bbs was more intimate, it was poeple | from around your community calling in, you would get | excited if someone from out of province/state happen to | dial up your board. At the high point of things, late | 1989, i had 5 lines going. In the end, I only kept one | line going and slowly slowly the users dropped away. | Then I decided to archive the whole bbs on cd-rom and | pack it away." - Face --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-455-1963 | Petrel Systems | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1995-1998) SYSOP | Will Burrow --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-455-2808 | The Mad Scientist | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1991-1992) SYSOP | Doug McLean --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-457-0324 | Cygnus | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Dale Woden --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-457-0483 | Data Intelligence Group Corp | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1995-1999) SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-457-4088 | Dargaard Keep | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1993) SYSOP | Dave Profit --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-457-6065 | The Vortex | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1991-1992) SYSOP | Mark Walsh --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-457-9614 | TAD, Trans Atlantic Dimensions | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1993-1996) SYSOP | Preston Waite --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-458-2651 | Northern Connection, Online Services | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1989-1992) SYSOP | Calvin Martini, Colin Longman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-458-9442 | The Conexxion | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | John Milton --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-459-0973 | Omni Net, Omni-Net | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1989-1996) SYSOP | A. Cogswell SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-459-5090 | Electro Blast, ElectroBlast BBS (Node 1) | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Jean Letourneau SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-459-5282 | Fredericton's RPG Network | Fredericton, NB (1993-1994) SYSOP | Ian Smith, Jacen Groves SOFTWARE | SuperBBS 1.6/1.17 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-466-5315 | The Insomniac's Domain | ST STEPHEN, CANADA (1998-1999) SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-472-3468 | Tony's Place | FREDERICTON, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | Ken Washburn --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-542-9536 | Dark Cave BBS | PETITROCHR, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Paul Aube --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-546-1303 | Canadian Medical Info | BATHURST, CANADA (1995) SOFTWARE | WILDCAT --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-546-3654 | Dead Man's Cave BBS | BATHURST, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Rene Dugas --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-548-9240 | N.T.P.A. BBS | BATHURST, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Louis Arseneau --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-548-9248 | N.T.P.A. BBS | Bathurst, NB (1989-1996) SYSOP | Louis Arseneau SOFTWARE | Wildcat COMMENTS | "I see that I'm listed twice. I suspect it's because of | the Phone Numbers; I could have been listed 6 times | because I had 6 phone lines coming into the house, and | grew to 600 members, in the early 90's. I had a donation | of a Pioneer 6 pack (6 cd's) and had tens of thousands of | shareware files online for downloads, I can't rememebr | how many Online games we had, L.O.R.D was one of the most | popular, it was a great time, and I really enjoyed it.... | working with Desqview to do multi tasking hehehe, and | Qemm for memory managment, a friend of mine would cut | traces on internal modems and go get other IRQ's before | that was standard option. As far as I know I was the | first in the Province to get a 14,400 baud modem it cost | me $1,200... ouf ... I could go on but I won't :)" - | Louis Arseneau --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-622-8292 | The Music Machine | MIRAMICHI, CANADA (1992) SYSOP | Billy Casey --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-633-1344 | Oasis BBS | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1991-1995) SYSOP | Steven LeBlanc --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-634-8483 | Pegasus BBS, Phoenix SBBS | Saint John, NB (1991-1993) SYSOP | Wayne McKay --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-635-1964 | Atlantic Access, Atlantic Canada, Atlantic Satellite Mail | Server, Saint John Sat Dish, The Sentinel | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1990-1995) SYSOP | Bill Walton --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-636-9117 | The Mad Scientist | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1992-1998) SYSOP | Doug McLean --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-642-2787 | Headhunter's BBS | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1992-1996) SYSOP | Cliff Maude --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-652-1858 | Prophecy Mail Server | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | George Hannah --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-652-2585 | Programmers Corner | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | Jim May --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-652-6686 | Prophecy Mail Server | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1994-1995) SYSOP | George Hannah --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-652-7292 | Prophecy BBS | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1993-1995) SYSOP | George Hannah --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-652-8702 | Interpro BBS, SPiDeRS CLaW BBS | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Paul Vermette --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-652-8943 | Gamers Board BBS, The Gamers Board BBS | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Stephen McIsaac --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-652-8999 | Astron BBS | Saint John, NB (1992-2003) SYSOP | Paul Elson, Joe Murphy --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-652-9022 | Vision's BBS | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Robert Lewin --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-652-9661 | NB PEI Canada, Node 2001 BBS, Node 2001 RBBS | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1994-1998) SYSOP | Terry Davies --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-652-9662 | NB PEI Canada, Node 2001 BBS, Node 2001 BBS POTS, Node | 2001 RBBS, node2001.dynip.com, | node2001.inetcam.com | Saint John, NB (1992-2009) SYSOP | Terry Davies SOFTWARE | Synchronet COMMENTS | "Hi... This is a great record of the BBS systems... A | wonderful, wonderful job... I ran RBBS 8:990/801 for the | first ~24 months in 1992.... then joined fidonet as | 1:255/28, I have maintained both addreses to this date, I | am sure family net may have got zone 8, but can't use the | RBBS numbers, cos a few, still use them... Neat | stuff.... I ran RBBS with the cdor addons and | Binkleyterm until almost 1998, changed to maximus with | binkleyterm and in 2001 changed to Synchronet... I had | to maintain an old 486 machine way past its time to | continue to run that dos stuff we use to call fossil | drivers Fido Opus Seadog Standard Interface Level.... | Take care and thankyou.. I looked at various old | nodelists... wow... I have shared this website with | others.. I did not know.... Thanks again." - Terry | Davies --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-658-6248 | Line Noise | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Paul Elson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-672-4847 | Terminal Velocity | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1996) SYSOP | Scott Merrill --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-672-8543 | Atlantic Access | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Bill Walton --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-674-1154 | Buddh's Den | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | Brian Mott --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-674-2987 | Dog's BBS | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Barry Webb --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-684-2368 | Eagle II BBS | DALHOUSIE, CANADA (1990-1992) SYSOP | Boyd Goodin SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-693-6096 | Black Dragon BBS, The Goddess Altar, The Goddess Alter | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Tom Forfar --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-696-3183 | Pegasus BBS | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Wayne McKay --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-696-8978 | The Wild Side | SAINT JOHN, CANADA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Gerald Folkins --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-735-3188 | CompuBBS | Edmundston, NB (1990-1997) SYSOP | Paul Cormier SOFTWARE | Wildcat COMMENTS | "One of the largest and longest running BBS in the | province, with four lines, satellite feed and multi-disc | CDRom files online. Those days were fun!... :)" - Paul | Cormier --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-735-3831 | CompuBBS | Edmundston, NB (1990-1997) SYSOP | Paul Cormier SOFTWARE | Wildcat , Wildcat\! --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-738-2060 | Oak Island Databank | GRDBYWSFLD, CANADA (1988) SYSOP | Hazen Middleton SOFTWARE | TUBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-738-2640 | CyPHeria BBS | Saint John, New Brunswick (1998-2000) SYSOP | Operations (Alex Petrosian) SOFTWARE | Iniquity 1r25 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-738-7191 | Wizards Key BBS | GRDBYWSFLD, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Mark Valdron --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-739-9762 | CompuBBS | EDMUNDSTON, CANADA (1992-1998) SYSOP | Paul Cormier --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-773-1091 | Mid Term, Mid-TERM BBS | MIRAMICHI, CANADA (1993-1996) SYSOP | Fred Fusco --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-773-4442 | NightFall | MIRAMICHI, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | Brett Gallant --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-778-2226 | Miramachi Magic | NEWCASTLE, CANADA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-778-2373 | The Rubber Factory | NEWCASTLE, CANADA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Kyle Seaman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-832-1846 | Gr0und Zer0 | HAMPTON, CANADA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Andrew McDonald --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-832-4112 | Deep Spawn BBS | HAMPTON, CANADA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Mathew Kelly --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-832-7115 | DarkSide BBS | Hampton, NB (1992-1997) SYSOP | Phantom aka:Frank Black SOFTWARE | Renegade COMMENTS | "Helped set up DeepSpawn, Buckshot, GST (GreenStone | Towers), and several other local BBSs" - Frank Black --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-836-2706 | The New Frontier (Node 1), The New Frontier BBS | RED BANK, CANADA (1995-1999) SYSOP | John Hughes SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-836-2723 | The New Frontier (Node 2), The New Frontier BBS | RED BANK, CANADA (1995-1999) SYSOP | John Hughes SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-847-8157 | THe PaRaDoX BBs | Quispamsis, NB, E2E1A7 (1995-1998) SYSOP | Andrew Martin (Slayer) SOFTWARE | Renegade BBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-849-4658 | Paradigm Shift BBS | ROTHESAY, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Mike Carpenter --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-849-4927 | Atlantic Canada, Atlantic Satellite Mail Server, Blit End | Mail Server, NB PEI Canada, The Blitter | End | ROTHESAY, CANADA (1992-2003) SYSOP | Mike Mossman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-849-6141 | Smokey's BBS | ROTHESAY, CANADA (1993-1996) SYSOP | Gary Boyle --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-849-6434 | Starcomm BBS | ROTHESAY, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | Glen Bizeau --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-849-6506 | Hinchey Computer Products, The Supernal BBS | ROTHESAY, CANADA (1988-1992) SYSOP | Gary Masson SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-849-7247 | The BatPower BBS | Quispamsis, NB (1998-2003) SYSOP | Gary Cooper --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-849-7362 | Tardis Control BBS | ROTHESAY, CANADA (1992-2003) SYSOP | Clint O'Donnell, Quispamsis NB --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-849-7511 | Programmer's Corner, Programmers Corner | Saint John, NB (1991-1994) SYSOP | Jim May --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-849-9046 | Supernal BBS | Quispamsis, NB (1987-1994) SYSOP | Gary Masson SOFTWARE | Collosus/Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-849-9557 | Scout Land | ROTHESAY, CANADA (1996-2003) SYSOP | Brian Evans --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-852-3008 | The Eternal BBS | MONCTON, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | Chris Killam --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-852-9679 | Graceland BBS | MONCTON, CANADA (1995) SYSOP | Michael Wood --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-853-7196 | Compu-Skills Inc. | MONCTON, CANADA (1992) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-853-7512 | ASG MicroAge BBS, Automated Systems Group INC | MONCTON, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | Roy Butterworth --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-854-2388 | The Mutherboard | MONCTON, CANADA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Drew Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-854-2804 | The Asylum | Moncton, NB (1995-1996) SYSOP | Paul Curwin SOFTWARE | Renegade --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-854-3422 | Programmers Corner | MONCTON, CANADA (1995) SYSOP | Jim May --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-854-3811 | The Eternal BBS | MONCTON, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | Chris Killam --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-855-1301 | ASG MicroAge BBS | MONCTON, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Roy Butterworth --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-855-3260 | Open Deck | MONCTON, CANADA (1995) SYSOP | Don Murray --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-855-9673 | The Augmentor!! | MONCTON, CANADA (1995) SYSOP | Gerald Sivret --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-859-0687 | Red Dwarf BBS | MONCTON, CANADA (1993-1994) SYSOP | James Amos --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-859-6827 | PC Moncton | MONCTON, CANADA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Chris Killam --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 506-859-7105 | The Augmentor!! | MONCTON, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | Gerald Sivret --------------+-----------------------------------------------------------