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WWIV
Developer(s)
Wayne Bell
Initial release
1984; 40 years ago (1984)
Repository
github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv
Written in
BASIC, Pascal, C, C++
Type
bulletin board system
License
Apache v2
Website
www.wwivbbs.org
WWIV was a popular brand of bulletin board system software from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s. The modifiable source code allowed a sysop to customize the main BBS program for their particular needs and aesthetics. WWIV also allowed tens of thousands of BBSes to link together, forming a worldwide proprietary computer network, the WWIVnet, similar to FidoNet.
WWIV was a popular brand of bulletin board system software from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s. The modifiable source code allowed a sysop to customize...
(Gary Martin, John Pritchett, 1986). TW2002 was designed originally as a WWIV chain (a way of calling external programs which was a part of Turbo Pascal...
OS/2. Synchronet – Windows/Linux/BSD, past versions: MS-DOS and OS/2. WWIV – WWIV v5.x is supported on both Windows 7+ 32bit as well as Linux 32bit and...
with routines written in C++ and assembly language, based on a copy of the WWIV source code. Telegard has several features that make it attractive to BBS...
Bell is the creator of the WWIV BBS system. The first WWIV BBS went online in Los Angeles in December 1984. His BBS, WWIV version 1.0 written in BASIC...
Diplomacy and Espionage ... Morrow. ISBN 0688092187.Book regarding alleged WWIV "World War IV: Let's call this conflict what it is". 2001. Archived from...
BBS computer. Active 1992-1994 In 1994 StarDoc 134 started running WWIV 4.x. WWIV written in C provided a much more expandable and robust base than the...
Telegard BBS and Renegade BBS, which both had early origins from leaked WWIV BBS source code. There were several dozen other BBS programs developed over...
WWIVnet was a Bulletin board system (BBS) network for WWIV-based BBSes. It was created by Wayne Bell on December 1, 1987. The system was similar to FidoNet...
QuickBASIC, it developed a loyal following. Originally it was a door for WWIV, but quickly grew into an original BBS concept on its own. By 1993, there...
uprising. The wealthy colonists hire mercenaries who are descendants of WWIV veterans to form the Independent Mercenary Army (IMA), which is bolstered...
at various intervals for testing.. Developers can find information about contributing on the project's website. Telegard Renegade (BBS) WWIV Mystic BBS...
protocol extension Dataframe Compression (FTS-1029). On October 2, 2015, WWIV BBS's WWIVnet implemented a binkp backbone for its network. binkp specification...
and the skills to match. Maven worked with the Kodansu Corporation during WWIV where she served in R&D and field testing of technologies. She spearheaded...
Swindell (a.k.a. Digital Man) due to his desire for certain features which WWIV lacked, such as support for multiple simultaneous nodes, batch uploads and...
at 105.9 FM in the summer of 1993 as WWIV, licensed to Trussville, a suburb east of Birmingham. Originally, WWIV was a simulcast of WYDE, which at the...
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