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We all poured countless hours into the development and support of people running BBSs. Even today I don't think the internet has come close to the sense of community and simple accomplishment that BBSing provided. Building and running a complete environment on your local computer and watching people
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use it is a far different experience than putting up a web page on some remote server. We all made and still have a great many friends from being sysops and BBS developers.
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No one ever got them to answer definitively on what their name stood for, but there was a reasonably reliable rumor that it was from "The
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The last known T.A.G. BBS still operating can be contacted by telnet at tag.diskbox2.net. Note: ANSI support is required to connect to weed out port scanners.
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