Archive of 1990s BBS Warez Scene: Personal Collection and Filelists
By
achairapart
Plain bagel done well. Pleasantly substantive.
Summary
A personal retrospective on the 1990s BBS warez scene, where the author shares their experience of trading and collecting software from bulletin board systems. The article serves as a digital archive, making available original filelists and release information from that era, presented in their authentic format as they appeared on BBS systems.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledFrom 1990 onwards I used to roam BBS's, trading and collecting warez.
Fast forward over 20 years and I still have very fond memories of the 90's BBS scene.
I've put the filelists from those days online here.
The lists are displayed as they originally were on BBS's with all their FILE_ID.DI
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