{"id":972,"date":"2013-04-02T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T20:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2013-04-02T15:47:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T20:47:26","slug":"revisiting-hotline-the-1990s-internet-bbs-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/972\/revisiting-hotline-the-1990s-internet-bbs-platform","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Hotline, the 1990s Internet BBS Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2031816\/hotline-revisited.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/macworld\/hotline_small.png\" alt=\"Hotline Revisited\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in the mid-late 1990s, an Internet-based BBS platform called Hotline sprung up and quickly spread throughout the Macintosh community.  It was basically a client\/server BBS software suite that allowed for multi-user chat, file transfers, and message boards.<\/p>\n<p>By the early 2000s, though, Hotline had mostly died out.  Today, only a handful of servers remain.  But guess what?  You can still connect to them &#8212; on Windows or a Mac.  A new article I wrote for Macworld, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2031816\/hotline-revisited.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hotline Revisted<\/a>,&#8221; tells you how.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun.  Remember to be kind to the Hotline veterans when you visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the mid-late 1990s, an Internet-based BBS platform called Hotline sprung up and quickly spread throughout the Macintosh community. It was basically a client\/server BBS software suite that allowed for multi-user chat, file transfers, and message boards. By the early 2000s, though, Hotline had mostly died out. Today, only a handful of servers remain. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,35,40,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","category-computer-info-and-history","category-internet-history","category-macintosh","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}