A phenomenon of the PC ANSI/ASCII scene from the second half of the 1990s onwards. Such BBSs were usually affiliated with artgroups and took pride in having an elaborate ANSI design.

This BBS carried PC releases and/or was part of the PC scene. Please note that it does not automatically mean that the BBS ran on a PC.

A BBS that was open to the general scene public, and not just for the self-defined "elites". Usually, such BBSs carried only legal files, and their numbers were publicly advertised. However, they usually still required user registration, and sysops could refuse accounts to users they considered too "lame".

This BBS was online (usually via telnet or SSH) at the time this tag was set.

This BBS was or still is reachable via telnet.