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.

A BBS that was connected to the demoscene in a more intense way than just offering demos for download. Such BBSs were affiliated with several demoscene groups, had active demosceners as sysops, or were generally know as demoscene communication hubs.

This BBS was or is connected to the FidoNet network.

A BBS that was (at least partly) oriented towards music and/or the tracking scene, hosting modules, players, samples, musicdisks etc.

RemoteAccess is a DOS Bulletin Board System (BBS) software package written by Andrew Milner and published by his company Wantree Development in Australia. RemoteAccess was written in Turbo Pascal with some Assembly Language routines. RemoteAccess (commonly called RA) began in 1989 as a clone of QuickBBS by Adam Hudson. It was released under the shareware concept in 1990 and became popular in North America, Europe, UK, South Africa, and the South Pacific. More information on Wikipedia.

This BBS was or still is reachable via telnet.