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If you put your own BBS implementation in Ruby on the digital floor in 2015, you're either a Ruby enthusiast or a BBS lover. Or Joshua Stein.

This isn't the first time Joshua has been a guest in our magazine, but we just couldn't leave out his current marvel.

BBS on a Macintosh Plus is Joshua's successful attempt to re-implement his very own BBS in C, and get it running on the Apple Mac Plus powered only by a Motorola 68k at 8MHz accessing only 4Mb of RAM.

The inclined adventurer tries a `telnet klud.ge` and learns, that communication does not necessarily need the HTTP protocol. All that is missing is a little ASCII art, and ... I’m sold.

Officially love it. ❤️