I saw this image before. The one associated with this post. My inner-child squealed, I was nostalgic for the tech of the time. I wanted to run a BBS back in the 90's, I could only dream to have one with this many nodes. Another thought that I had was about a modern version might be 4-5 lines each per single pentium-powered node with a POSIX multitasking OS or a modern eWaste PC running a Telnet powered BBS. With Discord doing it's fuckery, I have the thought I'd archive and discontinue "my" server and put up a IRC server. I wonder how hard it would be to convert my groups to follow suit. Somethign to consider.
More about BBS'
I posted about BBS' before, probably last week. This is an old post, though I saw the image before.