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by AvocadoSushi 3343 days ago
Here in Taiwan BBS is still popular, PTT [0] has ~120k avg. concurrent users every day.

For those interested, their codebase is available on GitHub [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System

[1] https://github.com/ptt/pttbbs
1 comments
jamesjyu 3343 days ago
Fascinating! I would have thought most people didn't have land lines in Taiwan. Are they dialing in using mobile phones?
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AvocadoSushi 3343 days ago
AFAIK most Taiwanese BBSes established in the 90's already run on Telnet over TCP/IP. PTT has SSH support, smartphone clients are available as well.

BBS with Internet today serves as a high-performance forum, loading boards/articles takes a single RTT. Storage is still file-based and relies on filesystem and kernel caching.

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