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CLUSTER BOARD-BULLETIN-BBS · 4 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2013-04-11

BBS client software

This cluster covers terminal and desktop applications for connecting to and using legacy bulletin board systems (BBS), including chat, file transfer, news reading, and message routing. The dated history before the index start is too thin to read a shape from, as fewer than five dated entries exist. Traction leaders based on activity signals are nexus-client, syncterm, and icy_term-bin, each with zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

APR 2013: 1JUL 2022: 1DEC 2024: 1JAN 2026: 1
APR 2013JAN 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 2 unlabelled

Operator · 4 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01nexus-client0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceCross-platform bulletin board system client offering chat, file transfer, and news reading for retro BBS users.
  2. 02syncterm0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal program for connecting to bulletin board systems, supporting ANSI music and IBM charset.
  3. 03icy_term-bin0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal program for connecting to bulletin board systems (BBS).
  4. 04golden-point0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application for reading, composing, mailing, tracking, and routing messages over a legacy bulletin board messaging network.

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