Stelex BBS Toronto, Canada.
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About The System
Stelex is a bulletin board system which dates back to the early 1980's.
Stelex is also an experiment with community electronic
memories and "born digital" content, and the refurbishing or enhancement of "old", pre-digital content.
Bulletin board systems usually contained text files of news
and information, and there would be "electronic mail" (messages between the
system's users) stored on the operator's computer. You could
download and upload various files - there would be a some sort of "login"
protocol, and user listings and logs. Many systems offered games and
text-based "chat" between users. "Help" files and downloadable user guides
and other attempts at documentation explained what was available, and provided
suggestions as to how you ought to proceed when you were in a particular "room",
compartment or section of the the overall system.
BBS's were often associated with computer clubs or other
groups-of-early-adopters of the technology, and the largest systems like
CompuServe had areas that catered to (and were often run by) such groups.*
*CompuServe was originally packaged as a sort of box with login
instructions and a book that resembled a user guide.
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