This is the Former Site of the Rock Bottom BBS

      The Rock Bottom BBS began operating
      in 1991 as a multi-node, dial-up 
      Wildcat 4 bulletin board system with 
      the requisite on-line games, chat, 
      file area and ANSI graphics.

      The original delivery platform was a 
      home-grown 80486 MS-DOS machine with 
      two diskless 386SX Netware workstations, 
      each with their own modem-- all disk 
      access being performed by the "monster" 
      main node and its dual 120MB (yeah, MB 
      not GB) hard drives.  

      By 1992, Rock Bottom offered internet 
      email and newsgroup access.  In fact, 
      the domain name "rockbottom.org" is one 
      of the oldest continually operating 
      domains on the Internet today. It was 
      originally registered in 1992, before 
      a lot of people were even aware of 
      the Internet. 

      At that point in time, Rock Bottom's 
      internet email was accomplished by a 
      UUCP relay to HoloNet in Berkeley, 
      California-- one of the original ISPs. 
      In 1998, we stopped offering dial-up 
      connectivity and moved strictly to the 
      web via telnet. 

      Briefly, Rock Bottom BBS converted to 
      an XBBS SCO Unix-based platform with 
      internet telnet access for the ANSI 
      games, but the death knell had already 
      sounded for the BBS operators and we 
      realized that a different direction 
      had to be taken.

      The reality was that, like most other 
      BBSes, our dialup visitors had dropped 
      from hundreds of connections a day in
      '93 and '94 to five calls a week by 
      the end of 1997.

      In 1998, we moved to the web and 
      migrated our email offering to 
      Everyone.Net.  We were one of Everyone's 
      earliest hosted email sites.

      In 2001, we migrated the site hosting 
      to a mix of self-operated and blog-type
      hosting services.

      Rock Bottom BBS officially ceased 
      operations in 2012.

      Throughout its history, Rock Bottom BBS 
      has stayed true to its original vision. 
      It has never made a profit, it often made
      no sense, and it has always taken up much
      more time that it probably should have.