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+ +* Computer with Modem accepting incoming calls +* offering interactive service to users who dial in + +== Content + +* bulletin boards / message boards +* live chat with sysop (or other users in multi-line BBS) +* multi-user games (text based!) +* file areas / downloads +* ASCII / ANSI artwork + +image:images/dosbox-telemate-login.png[width="50%"] + +== Technology/Software + +* Both sides: Computer + Modem +* BBS Side +** BBS Software +** often extended by "doors" (external programs, think of CGI for web) +* User Side +** Terminal Program (e.g. TELIX, Telemate for DOS) + +image:images/telemate.jpg[width="50%"] + + +== The "BBS Protocol Stack" + +In the spirit of protocol stack diagrams... + +image:images/bbs-protocol_stack.svg[width="80%"] + + +== Curiosity: Vector Graphics + +* BBSs were typically all Text, mostly ANSI CP437 charset +* RIP (Remote Imaging Protocol) / RIPscrip introduced vector graphics +** RIPscrip introduced in 1992 (by TeleGrafix) +*** Commands like ``!|w00001B0M10'' to draw vector graphics over Modem +** RIPterm as terminal program for EGA (640x350) + +image:images/Nouveau.png[] + +== Isolated BBSs + +To participate in bulletin/message boards + +* Users log in at different times +* BBS is busy while a user is logged in +* Multiple modems / phone lines is one (expensive) option to scale +* Time limit per User (minutes/day) often used + +== Points / Offline Messages + +* Users don't read/write interactively during active modem call +* Messages get written offline and compressed/batched during short call + +Advantages: + +* lower cost (shorter phone calls, metered!) +* shorter connection per user +* BBS can scale to more users this way + +image:images/xpmenu.gif[width="60%"] + +== BBS networks (store + forward) + +Idea: Replicate bulletin / message boards between independent BBSs, for + +* scalability in number of users +* scalability in geographic scope +** most users will prefer least-expensive local calls to long-distance +* efficient transport over long distance due to routing/forwarding of compressed batches + +== BBS network technology (examples) + +* FIDO (Netmail + Echomail) +** Othernets like TrekNet, GerNet using same FTN technology +* Z-Netz (Mail + News) +** T-Netz, CL-Netz +* UUCP (Usenet Mail + News) +** Often only way to access "Internet" before IP access was available +* MausNet - Münster Apple User Service +** used by up to 120 BBSs in DE / AT / CH + +== Example: FIDOnet + +* Starts in 1984 with two BBSs +* Initial limit of 250 nodes reached in 1985 +* Hierarchic, Regoinal routing/Adressing introduced in 1986 +** Nodelist defines all nodes of the network + hierarchy +* Addresses like "Harald Welte @ 2:2490/1343" +* Up to 39,000 nodes in 1996, estimated 2 Million users world-wide + +== Example: Z-Netz + +* Started as Zerberus-Netz implemented in Zerberus Software +* Later renamed to Z-Netz as the ZConnect protocol was implemented in other software +** Standards defined based on perceived complexity of RFCs and Usenet/UUCP +* CrossPoint (DOS) most popular point software for ZConnect +* Addresses like H.WELTE@SILVER, later H.WELTE@SILVER.zer + +== Example: UseNet + +* Established in 1980 in the US +* Uses UUCP (Unix-to-Unix-Copy) as transport mechanism over Modmes +** UUCP was created in the 1970ies and used to copy files, including Internet Mal +* Usenet News format (RFC850) designed very similar to Internet Mail (RFC822) +* Hierarchy of News Groups that gets replicated / flooded accross the network +* Routing defined in route maps + +== Curiosity: Floppy Poll/Point + +* Not everyone had a phone line in the 1990ies +** particularly Eastern Germany had big lack of phone lines +* Some people thus exchanged daily floppies in evenlopes and mailed them as postal letters +* Messages arrived about one day later, but with 1-2 days latency even inside the dial-up store-and-forward network, it hardly matters + +image:images/floppy-disk-1219954_640.png[width="30%"] + +== Internet + +Early ways to access Internet: + +* Mail/News via UUCP (as stated earlier) +* Dial-Up Modem to a TTY of a Unix machine connected to TCP/IP +** Often workstations at universities. You could then run FTP, IRC, telnet, Gopher on the test console +* ftp-mailers +** a FTP client running on a remote machine, whose input/output is used by e-mail +** you send a mail with "ftp ftp.sun.com" and "ls" +** hours or days later you get the list of files +** you respond with cd / get / ... +** hours later you get the file as batch of UUencoded mails + +== Internet with SLIP + +* if you had dial-up access to a Unix box +* you could run SLIP on both sides, transporting IP over the modem line +** IP. At home. In your apartment !!1! +* later superseded by PPP (auto-configuration, authentication, compression, ...) + + +== ISDN + +* Digital Circuit-Switched Telephony Network +** Transport of Digital Voice (PCM) audio and transparent digital data +* Germany +** 1989 put in operation +** Until 1993 German 1TR6 system +** From 1994 European E-DSS1 +** Hugely popularized from 1995 by subsidies + +== ISDN Terminal Adapter + +* ISDN is an all-digital network +* No modulator / demodulator required +* Instead, so-called _terminal adapter_ +* Speeds: 64000 (single B-channel) or 128000 (both B-channels) +* V.110 as adaptation to do async serial over sync ISDN (1988) + +image:images/isdn.jpg[width="50%"] + +== How to get Internet Access? + +* Hard to access in early/mid 1990ies outside of academia +* Almost no commercial ISPs (XLink, EUnet) - and very expensive +* Grass-Roots groups of enthusiasts established themselves +* Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (KNF, franken.de) one of them +** dial-up UUCP and shortly later IP for personal, non-commercial users +** POPs in Nürnberg, Fürth, Erlangen, Forchheim, Würzburg, Regensburg, ... +** Every user got 6 static IP addresses routed to wherever he dialed in (OSPF!) +** served ~ 800 users / members at peak + +== Individual Network (IN) e.V. + +* Umbrella Association established in 1992 +** Goal to help regional member associations with negotiating framework contracts +** Actual technical access via WiN/DFN, XLink, EUnet +** Regional Member Associations include Oche, Augusta, Escape, IN-Berlin, Hanse, INKA, Toppoint, muc.de, IN-Passau, ThurNet, MAUS, CL-Net and many more +** IN members served more than 300,000 users at one point +** Dissolved in 2000, when +*** commercial ISPs were widespread, and +*** remaining IN member organizations could get decend connectivity with IN e.V. + +== Internet + +With packet-switched TCP-IP + +* you just needed to dial one number +* and then access systems world-wide + +This brought new purpose to leased lines + +== Analog Leased Lines + +* Telephone operator permanently interconnects wires at exchange +* No signaling (dialtone/ringtone etc) +* Requires modems with special capabilities +** ATA without an incoming ring first +** ATD without a dialtone first +* In Germany: "Analog G" of Post/Telekom +** I finally could afford one in 1998 +** 900 DM installation cost +* 180 DM per month (60 DM per hop) + +== hub-nbg.franken.de, 1998 + +image:images/pict3_Lg.jpg[] + + +== ISDN Leased Lines "SPV" + +* Not really a leased line +* Basically only "flat rate calls" to one specific (fixed) destination +* Available in national 1TR6 only + +== Abusing Analog Lines, Part 1 + +* ICU-T +** inverse of ISDN NTBA +** ISDN BRI (2x64k + 16k) over 12km of telephone line +* Special ISDN routers without signaling to use even 16k D-channel for data! + +Easy upgrade to get performance of a leased ISDN line out of an Analog-G + +== Leased Lines at KNF, 1997/1998 + +[graphviz] +---- +include::images/knf-leased_lines.dot[] +---- + +== hub-fue.franken.de, undated + +image:images/hub-fue-03_Lg.jpg[] + +== hub-fue.franken.de, undated + +image:images/hub-fue-04_Lg.jpg[] + +== Abusing Analog Lines, Part 2 + +When the first DSL modems became availale in the US + +* we imported some Ascend DSLpipe +* with some fimrwares, they could be used back-to-back (without DSLAM) +* suddenly we could get speeds of 2.3 MBps over analog lines +** if they were not too long +** if they didn't have in-line inductors +* soon less expensive alternatives came up Pairgain (2000) + +image:images/ascend.jpg[width="50%"] + +== From Online Bistro to Internet Cafe + +* Falken's Maze was an _Online Bistro_ established in the 1990ies +** I became a regular around 1994 +* initially had four DOS PCs, each with a Modem, dedicated phone line and a call charge meter +** you could go there, eat + drink and use the PCs to log into BBSs +* quickly became preferred meeting point of various nerds, BBS users, SYSOP meetings, etc. +* PCs were networked with 10base2 and NetWare (DOOM!) +* people started to dial into CompuServe, AOL, etc. +* Internet became more popular, Falken's Maze started subsidiary in Nuernberg +** ISDN SPV was used as Internet uplink + + +== Conclusions + +* The first decade[s] of wide-area electronics communications was powered by a community of enthusiasts +* BBS community / culture is a distinct sub-culture. Different norms than HAM radio, Hackers, Free Software, but lots of overlap + + +== Further Reading + +* http://telnetbbsguide.com/ +** list of active telnet BBSs +* http://qodem.sourceforge.net/ +** FOSS multi-platform terminal program +* http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansi/ +** Archive of ANSI Artwork +* http://www.filegate.net/nodelist/ +** FIDO nodelist of 2017 + +== EOF + +End of File diff --git a/2017/bbs_early_internet-34c3/bbs_early_internet.html b/2017/bbs_early_internet-34c3/bbs_early_internet.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bacb74e --- /dev/null +++ b/2017/bbs_early_internet-34c3/bbs_early_internet.html @@ -0,0 +1,5068 @@ + + + + +BBSs and Early Internet Access in Germany + + + + + + + + +
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Circuit Switched Telephony

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Accoustic Coupler

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Modems

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Automatization of the accoustic coupler

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Modem Speeds / Standards

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Technology/Software

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The "BBS Protocol Stack"

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Curiosity: Vector Graphics

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BBS networks (store + forward)

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BBS network technology (examples)

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Example: Z-Netz

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Example: UseNet

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    • + +UUCP was created in the 1970ies and used to copy files, including Internet Mal + +
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Curiosity: Floppy Poll/Point

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  • + +Some people thus exchanged daily floppies in evenlopes and mailed them as postal letters + +
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  • + +Messages arrived about one day later, but with 1-2 days latency even inside the dial-up store-and-forward network, it hardly matters + +
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Internet

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Early ways to access Internet:

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  • + +Mail/News via UUCP (as stated earlier) + +
  • +
  • + +Dial-Up Modem to a TTY of a Unix machine connected to TCP/IP + +
      +
    • + +Often workstations at universities. You could then run FTP, IRC, telnet, Gopher on the test console + +
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  • + +ftp-mailers + +
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    • + +a FTP client running on a remote machine, whose input/output is used by e-mail + +
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    • + +you send a mail with "ftp ftp.sun.com" and "ls" + +
    • +
    • + +hours or days later you get the list of files + +
    • +
    • + +you respond with cd / get / … + +
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Internet with SLIP

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  • + +if you had dial-up access to a Unix box + +
  • +
  • + +you could run SLIP on both sides, transporting IP over the modem line + +
      +
    • + +IP. At home. In your apartment !!1! + +
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  • + +later superseded by PPP (auto-configuration, authentication, compression, …) + +
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ISDN

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  • + +Digital Circuit-Switched Telephony Network + +
      +
    • + +Transport of Digital Voice (PCM) audio and transparent digital data + +
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  • + +Germany + +
      +
    • + +1989 put in operation + +
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    • + +Until 1993 German 1TR6 system + +
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    • + +From 1994 European E-DSS1 + +
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    • + +Hugely popularized from 1995 by subsidies + +
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ISDN Terminal Adapter

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    +
  • + +ISDN is an all-digital network + +
  • +
  • + +No modulator / demodulator required + +
  • +
  • + +Instead, so-called terminal adapter + +
  • +
  • + +Speeds: 64000 (single B-channel) or 128000 (both B-channels) + +
  • +
  • + +V.110 as adaptation to do async serial over sync ISDN (1988) + +
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How to get Internet Access?

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  • + +Hard to access in early/mid 1990ies outside of academia + +
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  • + +Almost no commercial ISPs (XLink, EUnet) - and very expensive + +
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  • + +Grass-Roots groups of enthusiasts established themselves + +
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  • + +Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (KNF, franken.de) one of them + +
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    • + +dial-up UUCP and shortly later IP for personal, non-commercial users + +
    • +
    • + +POPs in Nürnberg, Fürth, Erlangen, Forchheim, Würzburg, Regensburg, … + +
    • +
    • + +Every user got 6 static IP addresses routed to wherever he dialed in (OSPF!) + +
    • +
    • + +served ~ 800 users / members at peak + +
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Individual Network (IN) e.V.

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  • + +Umbrella Association established in 1992 + +
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    • + +Goal to help regional member associations with negotiating framework contracts + +
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    • + +Actual technical access via WiN/DFN, XLink, EUnet + +
    • +
    • + +Regional Member Associations include Oche, Augusta, Escape, IN-Berlin, Hanse, INKA, Toppoint, muc.de, IN-Passau, ThurNet, MAUS, CL-Net and many more + +
    • +
    • + +IN members served more than 300,000 users at one point + +
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    • + +Dissolved in 2000, when + +
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      • + +commercial ISPs were widespread, and + +
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      • + +remaining IN member organizations could get decend connectivity with IN e.V. + +
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Internet

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With packet-switched TCP-IP

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  • + +you just needed to dial one number + +
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  • + +and then access systems world-wide + +
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This brought new purpose to leased lines

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Analog Leased Lines

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  • + +Telephone operator permanently interconnects wires at exchange + +
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  • + +No signaling (dialtone/ringtone etc) + +
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  • + +Requires modems with special capabilities + +
      +
    • + +ATA without an incoming ring first + +
    • +
    • + +ATD without a dialtone first + +
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  • + +In Germany: "Analog G" of Post/Telekom + +
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    • + +I finally could afford one in 1998 + +
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    • + +900 DM installation cost + +
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  • + +180 DM per month (60 DM per hop) + +
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hub-nbg.franken.de, 1998

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ISDN Leased Lines "SPV"

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  • + +Not really a leased line + +
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  • + +Basically only "flat rate calls" to one specific (fixed) destination + +
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  • + +Available in national 1TR6 only + +
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Abusing Analog Lines, Part 1

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  • + +ICU-T + +
      +
    • + +inverse of ISDN NTBA + +
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    • + +ISDN BRI (2x64k + 16k) over 12km of telephone line + +
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  • + +Special ISDN routers without signaling to use even 16k D-channel for data! + +
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Easy upgrade to get performance of a leased ISDN line out of an Analog-G

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Leased Lines at KNF, 1997/1998

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hub-fue.franken.de, undated

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Abusing Analog Lines, Part 2

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When the first DSL modems became availale in the US

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  • + +we imported some Ascend DSLpipe + +
  • +
  • + +with some fimrwares, they could be used back-to-back (without DSLAM) + +
  • +
  • + +suddenly we could get speeds of 2.3 MBps over analog lines + +
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    • + +if they were not too long + +
    • +
    • + +if they didn’t have in-line inductors + +
    • +
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  • +
  • + +soon less expensive alternatives came up Pairgain (2000) + +
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From Online Bistro to Internet Cafe

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  • + +Falken’s Maze was an Online Bistro established in the 1990ies + +
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    • + +I became a regular around 1994 + +
    • +
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  • +
  • + +initially had four DOS PCs, each with a Modem, dedicated phone line and a call charge meter + +
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    • + +you could go there, eat + drink and use the PCs to log into BBSs + +
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  • + +quickly became preferred meeting point of various nerds, BBS users, SYSOP meetings, etc. + +
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  • + +PCs were networked with 10base2 and NetWare (DOOM!) + +
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  • + +people started to dial into CompuServe, AOL, etc. + +
  • +
  • + +Internet became more popluar, Falken’s Maze started subsidiary in Nuernberg + +
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    • + +ISDN SPV was used as Intenret uplink + +
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Further Reading

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