Historical List of BBSes in the 709 Area Code --------------------------------------------- Created by TEXTFILES.COM From Many Sources 709-256-2472 | The Mindworks BBS | GANDER, CANADA (1995-1999) SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-256-4503 | Terracomm BBS | GANDER, CANADA (1994-1998) SYSOP | Daryl Horniak --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-335-8216 | Net258 NEC, The Warriors Den BBS | POUCH COVE, CANADA (1997-1998) SYSOP | Chesley Wilkins --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-364-5845 | Carnage | Mt. Pearl, NF (1997-1998) SYSOP | Chris Mallard SOFTWARE | Iniquity --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-364-6345 | SYSTEM: Emerald | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | Bernard Delurey --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-364-6833 | The Anthrax Palace (TAP) | St. John's, NF (1993-1995) SYSOP | Nick Morrissey (flink, x-files) SOFTWARE | Renegade, Iniquity COMMENTS | "Once upon a time, I was a teenager who had just gotten | a modem. A friend gave me a copy of Telix, and I started | calling around to different BBSs around town. I was | immediately hooked. I eventually decided to run my own, | and at the time, the popular software was Renegade (at | least in my town). Renegade was one of those really easy | to setup BBS programs, and I was needing something a | little more customizable. Someone clued me into a little | known piece of software written by a guy in Halifax... | Iniquity. During this time, IRC was becoming more and | more popular. I learned of it when I got my first real | internet connection, and in 1995, I shut my BBS down, so | I could use my line for more interesting ventures. This | coincided with DALnet opening up for business, and I just | totally dropped the BBS scene. I found the introduction | of this site to really match what my time on BBSs was | like. Even to this day, 10 years later, I still remember | making my daily calls... and my daily fix of LORD :)" - | Nick Morrissey --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-368-0094 | Moe's Tavern | Mount Pearl, NF (1993-1997) SYSOP | Sarge (Blair Churchill), Mrs. Doubtfire (Stephen | Williams), Spark Plug, (Keagan Quilty) SOFTWARE | TriBBS 5.1 COMMENTS | "Wanted to make some changes to your entry to Moe's | Tavern in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland (709 list). Moe's | ran on TriBBS on a 286 owned by Sarge (Blair) donated by | Remote Sysop, Mrs.Doubtfire. Co-Sysops would vary, | depending on who logged on regularly at the time but | Spark Plug was always on the list, who also ran the Q | Continuum. Always had fun with Moe's but I left town and | had to take it down. Plus BBS's were dying out anyway | since this Internet thing seemed to be catching on | somewhat at the time. I still have the last backup of | Moe's stored on this computer. Hard to part with =)" - | Blair Churchill --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-368-0167 | SYSTEM: Emerald, SYSTEM: Nexus/2 | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Bernard Delurey --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-368-2078 | Twilight Zone | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-368-4353 | Space Odyssey | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-368-4698 | The Ivory Coast BBS | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1993-1996) SYSOP | Dave Best --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-368-4709 | Danger Zone BBS, The Danger Zone | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1996-1998) SYSOP | Brian Murphy --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-368-5475 | The Digital Underground BBS | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1995-1999) SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-437-1918 | The Underground | TORBAY, CANADA (1997) SYSOP | Donny Kavanagh --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-466-1765 | JDR'S Place | CLARENVILLE, CANADA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Jeff Reid --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-466-3903 | Shadow PCBoard | CLARENVILLE, CANADA (1991) SYSOP | Ian Best SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-467-2101 | PowerHouse BBS | Lethbridge, Newfoundland, Canada, (1996-1999) SYSOP | Blake Holloway SOFTWARE | RemoteAccess --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-467-2383 | S.T.A.R.R. BBS | MUSGRAVETOWN, CANADA (1995-1997) SYSOP | Rod Greening --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-467-4334 | StarFire | MUSGRAVETOWN, CANADA (1996) SYSOP | Stephen Coles --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-489-1115 | Overnite II BBS | GRANDFALLS, CANADA (1995-1998) SYSOP | Bryan Taylor --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-489-1544 | OverNite II BBS | GRANDFALLS, CANADA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Bryan Taylor --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-489-1858 | The North Atlantic BBS | GRANDFALLS, CANADA (1995-1999) SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-489-3187 | FoxNet | GRANDFALLS, CANADA (1991) SYSOP | William Hiltz SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-489-4758 | FoxNet, FoxNet PCBoard | GRANDFALLS, CANADA (1985-1991) SYSOP | William Hiltz SOFTWARE | PCBoard COMMENTS | "Two USR-HST lines, Dual CDROM drives online, Authorized | PCSIG Reseller, Simpleware Program Support, 100+ QMail | Conferences." --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-576-2642 | Infomania BBS | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Milos Popovic --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-576-7088 | Infared BBS | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Greg Kelly --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-579-1180 | The Dungeon BBS | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Jason Bennett --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-579-2510 | Sonic Boom BBS | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1993-1996) SYSOP | Jody McIntyre --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-579-2666 | The Data Hut BBS | St. John's, NL (1992-1996) SYSOP | Drury Cook SOFTWARE | Wildcat, Frontdoor COMMENTS | "First BBS to bring Fidonet to Newfoundland. Was also the | Fidonet hub for Newfoundland." - Drury Cook --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-596-0450 | Cold Front House | CARBONEAR, CANADA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Alan Henry --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-596-4536 | The Cheyennes BBS | CARBONEAR, CANADA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Ken Murray, Kenneth Murray SOFTWARE | QuickBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-634-6761 | Speed Pro+ BBS, SpeedPro+ BBS | CORNER BRK, CANADA (1993-1998) SYSOP | Perry Ellsworth SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-639-7565 | Island Connection | CORNER BRK, CANADA (1995-1998) SYSOP | Stephen Simms --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-643-3462 | The Stray Bit BBS | STEPHENVILLE, CANADA (1991) SYSOP | Lloyd Pittman SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-643-9200 | Limbo BBS | STEPHENVILLE, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Mike Reardon SOFTWARE | WWIV 4.24 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-670-6195 | Side 7 BBS | Woodbridge, VA (1992-1996) SYSOP | Bad Karma (Jason Lamey), Sir Kain SOFTWARE | Shotgun BBS COMMENTS | "Side 7 was an anime-related BBS. Was regional node for | WizNet, and had a max of two phone lines. There were | plenty of registered doors, and several CD libraries of | files to download. These days, Side 7 is an online art | gallery and community, currently serving over 8,000 | members. You can find it at http://www.side7.com/ ." - | Bad Karma (Jason Lamey) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-722-0038 | The Eastern Access | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Stephen Drover --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-722-2345 | Rockland BBS | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1995-1999) SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-722-9630 | Ameateur $3 APPLE, The Amateur BBS | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1986-1991) SYSOP | Douglas Cuff SOFTWARE | Prime --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-726-1752 | Visionz BBS | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1993-1995) SYSOP | Neal Gushue --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-726-5522 | The Ultimate Getaway BBS | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Chris Hogan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-726-7990 | The Single's HideAway BBS, The Ultimate Getaway BBS | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Chris Hogan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-726-9605 | Newfoundland Meditech Users Group | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Neal Gushue --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-738-1415 | Guild, The Guild BBS | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1988-1998) SYSOP | George Noel SOFTWARE | Commodore 64 with JiffyDOS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-738-2704 | The Circut Board | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | David King --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-738-3304 | Medieval Times, The Art Gallery BBS | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1990-1991) SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-739-6547 | BitStop, NoParity | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1985-1989) SYSOP | Joe Dawson SOFTWARE | Custom COMMENTS | "Custom Code by: Joe Dawson, Nick Barrowman, Stephen | Hiscock.

NoParity was the second BBS in Newfoundland. | But when that system shut down in 1986. From 1985-1987 | NoParity was the largest public data service in | Newfoundland. In 1987 the programmers of NoParity | started to write a whole new BBS system that was not | based on the same Commodore 64 hardware platform that | NoParity was based. This new system opened in 1998 with | the name of BitStop. For more information on NoParity or | other Newfoundland BBSs 1987-1988 visit | http://www.pomakis.com/~pomakis/bbs/ or | http://bitstop.ca." - Joe Dawson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-744-1141 | Midnight Oil | LONG POND, CANADA (1995-1998) SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-744-1147 | Midnight Oil | LONG POND, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | Pat Hogan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-744-1197 | Midnight Oil | LONG POND, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Pat Hogan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-747-0123 | Moe's Tavern | Mount Pearl, Newfoundland (1994-1996) SYSOP | Blair Churchill --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-747-0747 | The Hidden BBS | St. John's, Newfoundland (1992-1993) SYSOP | Jeff Power SOFTWARE | Remote Access COMMENTS | "Ran in the daytime while I was at school (which I all- | too-often wasn't), and my mom was at work. Not that | active, thanks to the restricted hours (being when most | BBSers were unable to dial-in...) Had some games, lots of | small DOS utility programs. All files compressed with | obscure archiver "Squeeze v1.08.3", which had better | compression that ZIP or ARJ. 2400 baud modem I liked the | concept of a BBS, but didn't have the means to fully | explore it (not many really did...). Fun while it | lasted." - Jeff Power --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-753-2153 | Seventh Tempest | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Daniel French --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-754-3825 | The Dungeon BBS | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1995-1998) SYSOP | Jason Bennett --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-754-5811 | Twilight Zone | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1992-1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-782-0470 | The Purple Room BBS | Paradise, Newfoundland (1991-1996) SYSOP | Mark Gruchy SOFTWARE | TriBBS COMMENTS | "Running this thing was a fascinating experience.

"It | all began when I found a partially obscured, white, | cardboard box on a back shelf at Radio Shack. It bore no | logo. It simply read, in bold black letters:

"2400 | Baud Modem (insert serial number)

"Not even a price | tag. Well, I'd just turned 13 and recalled reading about | computers "talking" over the phone when I was eight or so | in a book my dad had. They did this by way of a | MOdulator-DEModulator. This was the first time I'd ever | actually come across one of the gadgets in the flesh. So, | being the technically oriented little bugger that I was | (I cut my teeth on a VIC 20 my eccentric yet mechanically | ingenious great uncle bought years before. That thing was | great. Had a bloody tape drive. Those were the days.)I | did what any 13 year old kid would do.

"I begged mom | for the money. I still recall her nervousness as I | dismantled the newly acquired 12 MHZ 286 we'd just | bought. Then, a few months later when I set up the board, | I recall her dismay as the phone calls just kept rolling | in all hours of the night.

"In a matter of months, I | heard about ARPAnet. I put two and two together and | realized what was about to happen. I figured if a 13 year | old kid from the far east of Canada was tuned into what | amounted to a de facto network that existed solely due to | the will of the BBS operators it was only a matter of | time.

"I got my first internet account in 1995.

| "We were there guys." - Mark Gruchy --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-782-0671 | PcPonline, PcPonline Node2 | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Patrick Layman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-782-0719 | PcPonline, PcPonline Node3 | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1995) SYSOP | Patrick Layman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-782-1138 | PcPonline | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1994) SYSOP | Patrick Layman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-782-1238 | PcPonline | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Patrick Layman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-782-2058 | The Road House | ST JOHNS, CANADA (1994-1996) SYSOP | John Murphy --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-783-2770 | The Galaxie Bulletin Boar | SUMMERSIDE, CANADA (1994) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-834-1420 | Alternate Reality BBS | LONG POND, CANADA (1992-1996) SYSOP | Jonathan Young --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-834-6082 | The Downward Spiral | St. Johns, NEWF (1994-2001) SYSOP | Mark LeMaire Porter --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-895-3041 | Line Noise BBS | Portugal Cove, NL (1992-1995) SYSOP | Elling Lien SOFTWARE | Second Sight (Macintosh) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-895-3942 | NewfOnline | PORTUGALCV, CANADA (1992-1994) SYSOP | John Jenkins SOFTWARE | PCBoard 15.x --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-896-4952 | LATE NITE | HPVLGSBYLB, CANADA (1998-1999) SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-896-6082 | JDR'S Place | HPVLGSBYLB, CANADA (1997-1998) SYSOP | Jeff Reid --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-896-8685 | Net258 NEC, The Celtic Raider | HPVLGSBYLB, CANADA (1996-1999) SYSOP | Dirk Manuel --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-896-8699 | The Celtic Raider | HPVLGSBYLB, CANADA (1996-1998) SYSOP | Dirk Manuel --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 709-896-9424 | Bardic Voices, The Celtic Raider | HPVLGSBYLB, CANADA (2000) SYSOP | Dirk Manuel --------------+-----------------------------------------------------------