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BBSes are back, bbs.

IEEE Spectrum wrote about running an old-school bulletin-board system (BBS) from a Raspberry Pi 3 over LoRa, using the off-grid mesh-networking capabilities of Meshtastic, and it sounds like a very fun, nerdy project.

I didn’t have internet access early enough to get in on the BBS craze at its height. Perhaps this is my second chance?

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