About The Digital Post

History

The Digital Post started out in 1985 as a single-line BBS, then known as Space Station Alpha. Its humble beginnings grew into a multi-line communications hub and dial-up Internet service provider. As dial-up gave way to broadband in the mid-to-late 1990s, the BBS continued to operate as a telnet service. However, usage has hovered near zero for many years.

Access Methods

The classic BBS is available via:

Please be aware that regular Telnet transmits plain text over the Internet and does not encrypt your session data. This means everything you send or receive — including your password — is exposed. While still available, Telnet is not recommended and is provided only as a fallback for users who cannot use encryption.

TelnetS (Secure Telnet) encrypts your session data, protecting your password as well as all other text sent and received. SSH access requires you to pre-register with the BBS using one of the other methods first.

I use and recommend (not sponsored) SyncTERM as my go-to terminal emulator for classic BBSing. The classic BBS supports screen sizes of 80x25 (standard PC text mode) and 132x36 (my favorite, as it fits nicely fullscreen on a 16:9 display).

Future Goal

This project is my attempt to build a modern, feature-rich system to finally replace the text-based BBS that has been part of my computing life for decades. I hope you enjoy exploring the system.

Development Notes

The web application is under active development, so features may change and improve over time. We work hard to keep things stable, but unexpected bugs may still appear. If you notice an issue that lasts more than a day, please let us know.

Please note: the web interface and the classic text-based BBS use separate user databases. Looking ahead, the classic BBS will eventually be retired in favor of the web version — mainly due to low usage and the fact that Mystic BBS is no longer actively maintained.