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WWIV started out in early 1984 as a single BBS in Los Angeles, California, run by Wayne Bell, who wrote the original 1. 0 version in BASIC as a high school programing project, and shared the software with 25 of his friends.
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WWIV and early
Some popular freeware BBS programs for MS-DOS included Telegard BBS and Renegade BBS, which both had early origins from leaked WWIV BBS source code.
WWIV and BBS
* Hermes ( BBS ), a Macintosh-based bulletin board system that was similar to MS-DOS-based WWIV
Some years later, Randolph hosted the Igmeister Zone BBS, a WWIV node at speeds up to 9600 bit / s.
* Excalibur 2, a BBS Door game written by Richard L. Chism in 1990 for WWIV BBS's
As the popularity of WWIV spread in the mid-1980s, for practical reasons Bell switched to Pascal — specifically Borland's Turbo Pascal 2. 0 — creating a compiled version of the BBS but distributing the source code for it to anyone who was interested in their own BBS.
" Chaining " allowed for online games and other utilities to be used with WWIV without having to add the new source code for the game and then recompiling the entire BBS again.
This was done to not only allow multiple-line BBSs to exist using WWIV, but to allow all WWIV sysops to access their own BBS without having to wait for a user to log off and / or be rude and kick them off.
In the BBS world, WWIV was referred to sometimes as the " only killer app for OS / 2, and it wasn't even written for it !".
The switch to C also allowed for Bell to implement a rather flexible BBS network, WWIVnet, allowing all WWIV boards to link to each other.
The ability to modify WWIV as a sysop saw fit was one of its selling points — something that RBBS, Opus, Genesis, and many of the other BBS programs of the era refused to provide, usually on the basis of the perceived security risk.
In the case of WWIVnet, node number 1 was a WWIV BBS named Amber, the BBS run by Wayne Bell in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, California.
The Dragon's Den, another important node of the WWIVnet BBS network (@ 5252 ), was operated in Austin, Texas by Wig De Moville ( a. k. a. " Filo "), who assumed the position of administering the sales of the WWIV source code.
As the WWIV software continued to be improved, and more third-party software was being developed for the BBS system, new gateways systems were set up.
To quite a few non-WWIV sysops, using WWIV was a sign of rebellion against the status quo ; in fact, several key FidoNet administrators were quoted on several occasions that they firmly believed that running a WWIV board meant that you were probably running a " pirate " or " hacker " BBS, and that no WWIV BBS should be allowed access to FidoNet.
WWIV and run
One other side-effect of the multi-line capability was that IBM's OS / 2 — specifically the Warp version — became a popular choice for some WWIV sysops, as the default two instance configuration could easily run under the most basic OS / 2 system with ease.
WWIV did run well even in Microsoft Windows, though — often better than Windows-native BBSs — because DOS applications ran preemptively, even with Windows 3. 1.
As versions of WWIV became available that would support WWIV-networking " plugins ," there were suddenly dozens of new WWIV networks such as IceNET ( run by Jim Nunn in Buffalo, New York ), FILEnet ( run by Dennis Myers in Richmond, Virginia ) and WWIVlink, TerraNET ( run by Cris McRae ), EliteLink, ChaosNET ( centered around Jacksonville, Florida ), and TriNet around Washington DC.
Early versions of VBBS listed features such as " WWIV Compatible " and " Can be run as a door from WWIV BBS.
WWIV and by
It was originally written by Cott Lang in Pascal, based on the source code of Telegard, which was in turn based on the earlier WWIV.
Synchronet was originally written by Rob Swindell ( a. k. a. Digital Man ) due to his dissatisfaction with the lack of certain features in WWIV, such as support for multiple simultaneous nodes, batch uploads and bidirectional file transfer.
Boards in a WWIV network are identified within the network by a node number.
However, to e-mail a user at another board within a WWIV network, the @ sign would be added ( similar to an internet e-mail address ), followed by the node number.
As the Internet began to rise in popularity and availability a new method of packaging WWIV messages for transport by internet email was developed.
WWIV was ported to the Apple Macintosh by Terry Teague and later a WWIV clone for the Macintosh named Hermes was written by Frank Price.
Although BBSes have been eclipsed by the World Wide Web and the Internet, WWIV and other popular software still exist and are supported today.
One popular WWIV support site is owned by Frank Reid, who runs Eagle's Dare BBS near Washington, DC.
WWIV is now owned by Dean Nash aka Trader Jack ; his BBS is at bbs. wwiv. com.
The wealthy colonists hire mercenaries who are descendants of WWIV veterans to form the Independent Mercenary Army ( IMA ), which is bolstered by the presence of SDR Foreign Legion defectors.
WWIV and Wayne
Wayne Bell wrote and released the " Net30 " program which made the joining of WWIV bulletin board systems possible, which was not freely available.
WWIV and Bell
Nevertheless, source code availability was not lost on the thousands of WWIV sysops, who had begun to regard Bell as a cross between a father figure and a revolutionary.
WWIV and original
Originally it was a door for WWIV, but quickly grew into an original BBS concept on its own.
WWIV and .
Telegard was written in Pascal with routines written in C ++ and assembly language, based on a copy of the WWIV source code.
WWIV was a popular brand of bulletin board system software from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s.
WWIV also allowed tens of thousands of BBSes to link together, forming a worldwide proprietary computer network, the WWIVnet, similar to FidoNet, but with fewer problems related to forum management.
This encouraged sysops to develop new features for WWIV, and these ideas were released as " mods " that others could add to their own copies.
Until WWIV version 5. x, WWIV was written in C. For the open source release, WWIV was converted to C ++.
WWIV and version
" Telegard and Renegade BBS packages were heavily based on an older version of WWIV source code.
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