605 Area Code BBSes Through History

MAP OF THE 605 AREA CODE
605-225-2127
ABERDEEN, SD		 Zeppelin BBS
(1994-1995)		 Mark Urban
605-226-0641
ABERDEEN, SD		 The Cosmopolitan BBS
(1993-1996)		 Bill Kelsey
605-226-2428
ABERDEEN, SD		 Midwst Data EX
(1994-1996)
605-229-4535
ABERDEEN, SD		 The Computer Palace
(1993-1999)		 Gene KopetskyTriBBS
605-229-7911
ABERDEEN, SD		 shadowcasters
(1995-1996)
605-232-2109
SIOUX CITY, SD		 Gateway 2000
(1991-1994)
605-232-2224
North Sioux City, SD 		Gateway 2000, Gateway2000 Technical Support
(1993-1995)
605-232-3170
McCook Lake, SD		 Dakotas' Net, Sonny's Garage
(1992-1997)		 Daniel Liston, Dan ListonWildcat
605-232-4648
McCook Lake, SD		 The Voyager BBS, The Voyager New Space To Explore
(1991-1996)		 Jeffrey Preston, Jeff PrestonQuickBBS
605-256-2812
MADISON, SD		 Dakotan , SELECTAWARE BBS, The "Dakotan" BBS
(1989-1995)		 Mike Waldner, Michael WaldnerPCBoard
605-256-5195
MADISON, SD		 Dakota State Bd , Dakota State Board, Dakota State Board
(1987-1995)		 Bob BlomPCBoard
605-256-5493
MADISON, SD		 The Superior BBS
(1992)		 Dan Nelsen & Darrin Wait
605-331-1023
Sioux Falls, SD 		The RoadKill BBS
(1996-1997)		 Nathan KullSearchlight BBS
"BBS was established primarily for its door games and included national league Door Games. The BBS also had a couple of messaging feeds including FidoNet. It ran on 486 in a big ass, heavy, rackmount case that sat on the floor. Most remembered by me about the system is the loud ass fan and the yellow monochrome monitor that started burning in the waiting for call screen and console status bar. I also had one tournament that I don't think I ever got the winner of the game his Lasertag voucher that he had won. The board closed and I think I just kinda forgot about it. --- It was fun while it lasted." - Nathan Kull
605-331-5512
SIOUX FALLS, SD		 RaP BBS
(1994)		 Robert Turner
605-331-5831
Sioux Falls, SD 		YEBB, YEBB/Youth Education BBS, YEE BBS, YEEB BBS, YEEB,christian
(1992-1996)		 Ray ChristensenRBBS
"I used to be a user on YEBB way back in the day, and it was definitely *not* a Christian board. Also, while it was indeed run by Ray Christensen, it didn't run RBBS if I remember correctly. My memory is that it originally ran PCBoard, and at some point he switched to TSX-BBS. I'm not sure which should be listed - the PCBoard days were probably YEBB's heyday as it was free then, and thus had a lot of users, but that was a short period compared to the later, longer TSX-BBS era where it cost money, but offered a lot more functionality (including, eventually, Internet access). In addition, YEBB has been around later than 1996. I know we were using it at least in December 1997, and I think we stopped somewhere in 1998 - by this time, YEBB had primarily become an ISP, although the BBS functionality still existed (although it was no longer well-used). A Google search for yebb.com (this was YEBB's domain name) turns up a number of articles, message board posts, etc. from YEBB users in 1999. The search even turns up one message board post claiming to come from a yebb.com address in 2002, but I do not know if this is accurate (the user may have just forgot to update his/her e-mail address on the message board). However, 2002 *was* the year that Ray retired as the SD Secretary of Education (http://www.augie.edu/news/pressrel/general/2005/sep/gen2_25.htm) so perhaps that was the year that he closed down YEBB - I'm not sure as we had all moved on well before that time. For more specific information, you could probably still call Ray Christensen - he seems to still be operating in Sioux Falls, and would probably be in Switchboard. It would probably bring back old memories for him of the times when I used to relentlessly harass him via the "Contact the SysOp" feature, as well as when other users used to complain of the various antics I pulled, such as sending messages to people with "^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G" in the subject header, causing the receiving computer to start beeping wildly, even when the victim went into the Mail interface to delete the messages, and forwarding error messages sent by the TSX-BBS system and various daemons to people, while changing their texts to spin a little story about the BBS's various systems conspiring together to overthrow the humans and take over the world. It's really a wonder that I never got kicked off that board." - Anonymous YEBB User
605-332-1699
SIOUX FALLS, SD		 The Superior BBS
(1994)		 Wildcat
605-332-3191
Sioux Falls, SD 		Dakotas' Net, Multi-Verse
(1991-1997)		 Bill Bartell
605-335-7288
Sioux Falls, SD		 Dakotas' Net, Prairie Network, PrairieNet BBS
(1991-1995)		 Layth Grangaard
605-335-8930
SIOUX FALLS, SD		 Multi-Verse
(1993-1995)		 Bill Bartell
605-336-3578
Sioux Falls, SD 		Dakota Info//et, Dakota InfoNet, Dakota Infonet Opus, Dakota Information Network, DakotaInfoNet , Dakotas' Net, DkotaInfonet, To Be Deleted See Net 288
(1987-1996)		 Rory Binkerd, Rory Binkerd Opus
605-336-3935
SIOUX FALLS, SD		 HBBS The Host
(1984)
605-338-8333
Sioux Falls, SD		 YEEB, education, Youth Education EBBS
(1992-1995)		 Ray Christensen
605-338-9390
SIOUX FALLS, SD		 Wolves Den BBS
(1994-1995)		 Doug Peters
605-339-9277
SIOUX FALLS, SD		 The Red Satori
(1995-1997)		 Bob Wratz
605-339-9804
SIOUX FALLS, SD		 The Guild BBS
(1995)		 Rod Schnell
605-341-0037
RAPID CITY, SD		 Black Hills BBS [ASV]
(1993)
605-341-0098
RAPID CITY, SD		 PC Worlds BBS
(1991-1994)
605-341-3827
RAPID CITY, SD		 The Black Hills Zendo
(1991-1992)		 Rob Mican
605-341-4552
RAPID CITY, SD		 Dakota BBS
(1991-1993)		 Anne Fallis
605-341-4955
RAPID CITY, SD		 Tess's
(1996)		 Dan Ellis
605-341-5062
RAPID CITY, SD		 PC Worlds
(1992-1995)		 Burton Landman
605-342-2583
RAPID CITY, SD		 The Nuclear Assault BBS
(1994-1995)		 Nik Kautz
605-342-4326
RAPID CITY, SD		 Temple of Apsahi
(1992-1993)		 Darel Harmening
605-342-7335
Rapid City, SD 		The Other Side, Western Dakota Net
(1996-2002)		 Jason Reynolds
605-343-0755
RAPID CITY, SD		 Silver Bullet's Lounge, The Panic Button, Western Dakota Net
(1991-1995)		 Bryan Hofmann
605-343-1354
RAPID CITY, SD		 The Temple of Apshai
(1995)		 Darel Harmening
605-348-2423
RAPID CITY, SD		 Coffee House, Western Dakota Net
(1996-2000)		 Kevin Simmons
605-348-4113
Rapid City, SD		 The Time Portal, Western Dakota Net
(1991-1995)		 Steve Fuqua, Steven Fuqua
605-348-5522
Rapid City, SD 		Phantom BBS
(1995-2003)		 Jim Williams
"The BBS was run on a variety of software during its existence eventually setting on Wildcat which it ran for the majority of its life. It had a number of doors including Legend of the Red Dragon, Tradewars and Usurper. It had a Fidonet feed and towards the end also connected to an internet email gateway." - Jim Williams
605-348-5539
Rapid City, SD		 Virtual Reality
(1993-1998)
605-348-7293
RAPID CITY, SD		 IndianNET
(1994)
605-352-5992
HURON, SD		 Dragon's Lair, To Be Removed-See Net 2807
(1994-1995)		 Nelson Kientoff
605-352-6609
HURON, SD		 The Key System, To Be Removed-See Net 2807
(1994)		 Brock Beske
605-352-7578
HURON, SD		 PD Palace, Pheasant City InfoNet, To Be Removed-See Net 2807
(1994-1995)		 Dave Davis
605-352-7791
HURON, SD		 Dragon's Lair
(1995)		 Nelson Kientoff
605-352-9532
HURON, SD		 PD Palace
(1991-1994)		 Dave Davis
605-352-9823
HURON, SD		 Pheasant City InfoNet, The TAP, The Tap BBS
(1994-1995)		 Tim McAloon
605-353-1867
HURON, SD		 PD Palace, Pheasant City InfoNet, The Key System
(1995)		 Brock Beske, Dave Davis
605-353-8343
HURON, SD		 The Workstation BBS
(1994-1995)		 Tim McAloon
605-361-1581
SIOUX FALLS, SD		 Tandy BBS
(1996)		 Guennadiy Vexler
605-361-2912
SIOUX FALLS, SD		 Wolves Den BBS
(1994)		 Doug Peters
605-361-9397
SIOUX FALLS, SD		 PrairieNet BBS, PrairieNet Opus, PrairieNet QuickBBS, To Be Deleted See Net 288
(1988-1991)		 Layth Grangaard
605-362-8727
SIOUX FALLS, SD		 Digital Dreams BBS
(1995)		 Dave Engstrom
605-393-0467
RAPID VALLEY, SD		 Dakota BBS
(1994)		 Anne Fallis
605-393-0468
RAPID VALLEY, SD		 Dakota BBS, Dakota/INDIANnet
(1993-1994)		 Anne Fallis
605-393-9626
Rapid City, SD 		Ducky's, Western Dakota Net
(1994-2003)		 John Tubbs
605-394-6835
RAPID CITY, SD		 Raider BBS
(1994)		 Dan Ellis
605-394-6859
RAPID CITY, SD		 Dakota BBS
(1994-1995)		 Anne Fallis, Randy Foudray
605-399-3669
RAPID CITY, SD		 PD Palace, Western Dakota Net
(1995)		 Dave Davis
605-399-3959
RAPID CITY, SD		 American Anarchist On-line
(1995)		 VBBS
605-543-5907
CROOKS, SD		 Bang BOARD
(1995-1999)		 TriBBS
605-582-6721
BRANDON, SD		 Sioux Falls RBBS, Souix Falls RBBS, To Be Deleted See Net 288
(1990-1991)		 Bob McCaffrey
605-594-2230
GARRETSON, SD		 Su Z's Playpen
(1995-1996)		 Ken Remare
605-594-6896
GARRETSON, SD		 USGS/EROS Data Center
(1992-1995)		 Layth A. Grangaard
605-623-9889
Newport, TN 		Planet Connect TV
(1994)
605-624-9409
Vermillion, SD 		AMIS Vulgar Unicorn, Vulgar Unicorn, VULGAR UNICRN
(1985)		 AMIS
605-642-8605
SPEARFISH, SD		 The Urban Hideout
(1989)		 Wildcat
605-665-5179
YANKTON, SD		 Manzana BBS
(1988)		 Red Ryder Host
605-692-2379
BROOKINGS, SD		 Bored Games
(1992-1993)		 Todd Quatier
605-693-4691
BROOKINGS, SD		 The Host
(1992-1994)
605-697-6047
Brookings, SD 		The "What it is" BBS, What It is, The What it is BBS
(1990-1994)		 Matt JohnsonWildcat
"The system operator lived In Brookings, SD until about September, 1992. He then moved to Sioux Falls, SD and started another BBS there. The second BBS was named Omega Place, also on Wildcat, but the phone number is not currently known (remembered)." - Matt Johnson
605-743-2912
HARRISBURG TEA, SD		 Tiger Run
(1992-1996)		 Gary MeadeWildcat
605-756-4523
SOUTH SHORE, SD		 Buffalo Chips BBS
(1996-1997)		 Bill Skinner
605-787-7058
RAPID CITY, SD		 The Magick Matrix
(1993)
605-793-2506
Castlewood, SD 		Dakotas' Net, South Dakota's 1st Rush Room
(1995-2002)		 Gaylen Hintz
605-867-5912
PINE RIDGE, SD		 OpusPocus Black Hills Metro, OpusPocus! Red Cloud Country
(1989-1992)		 Dave Shields
605-882-0246
WATERTOWN, SD		 The Prairie Conservative
(1995)		 John Powers
605-882-2458
Watertown, SD		 StarGate BBS, Stargate BBS
(1996)		 Denny Kakacek
605-882-3620
WATERTOWN, SD		 The Daily PlaNET
(1995)		 David Stuefen
605-882-5701
WATERTOWN, SD		 The Daily PlaNET, The Daily Post
(1995-1997)		 David Stuefen
605-882-9079
WATERTOWN, SD		 The Graveyard, The Graveyard BBS
(1995-1999)		 Doug WallTriBBS
605-886-0570
WATERTOWN, SD		 The Midnight Madness
(1995-1999)		 TriBBS
605-886-0849
WATERTOWN, SD		 LakeCity BBS
(1994-1997)		 Tim Burling
605-886-3620
WATERTOWN, SD		 The Daily PlaNET
(1995)		 David Stuefen
605-923-1185
WARWICK, SD		 The Crows Nest, Western Dakota Net
(1988-1994)		 Fran Stetson
605-923-1197
WARWICK, SD		 The Wizard's Corner
(1998-2000)		 Paul Reed
605-923-2111
Rapid City, SD		 Cowboy's Corral
(1990-1995)		 John Skinner
605-923-2953
WARWICK, SD		 The Serpentine BBS
(1995-1999)		 TriBBS
605-923-2963
Campbell River, BC 		The Waveform BBS
(1992-1993)		 David CrossHyperBoard
605-923-3010
WARWICK, SD		 Buck's Dog House
(1993-1994)		 Scot Cross
605-996-8619
MITCHELL, SD		 Palace City BBS
(1993-1996)		 Greg MartinekWildcat
71 Sysops currently listed.
91 BBSes Listed.