This is the Former Site of the Rock Bottom BBS
The Rock Bottom BBS began operating
in 1991 as a multi-node, dial-up Wildcat 4
bulletin board system with the requisite
on-line games, chat, file area and ANSI
graphics.
The original delivery platform was a
home-grown 80486 MS-DOS machine with
two diskless 386SX Netware workstations,
each with their own modem-- all disk
access being performed by the "monster"
main node and its dual 120MB (yeah, MB
not GB)hard drives.
By 1992, Rock Bottom offered internet
email and newsgroup access. In fact,
the domain name "rockbottom.org" is one
of the oldest continually operating
domains on the Internet today. It was
originally registered in 1992, before
a lot of people were even aware of
the Internet.
At that point in time, Rock Bottom's
internet email was accomplished by a
UUCP relay to HoloNet in Berkeley,
California-- one of the original ISPs.
In 1998, we stopped offering dial-up
connectivity and moved strictly to the
web via telnet.
Briefly, Rock Bottom BBS converted to
an XBBS SCO Unix-based platform with
internet telnet access for the ANSI
games, but the death knell had already
sounded for the BBS operators and we
realized that a different direction
had to be taken.
The reality was that, like most other
BBSes, our dialup visitors had dropped
from hundreds of connections a day in
'93 and '94 to five calls a week by
the end of 1997.
In 1998, we moved to the web and
migrated our email offering to
Everyone.Net. We are one of Everyone's
oldest hosted email sites.
In 2001, we migrated the site hosting
from a mix of self-operated and blog-type
hosting services.
Rock Bottom BBS officially ceased operations in 2012.
Throughout its history, Rock Bottom BBS
has stayed true to its original vision.
It has never made a profit, it often has
made no sense, and it has always taken
up much more time that it probably should
have.