Development began in 1990 of the (unnamed at the time) Synchronet BBS software Synchronet version 2 for DOS and OS/2 was released to the public domain in 1997 Synchronet version 2 was written in C and 8086 assembly programming languages Synchronet version 3 is written mostly in C, with some C++, x86 ASM, and Pascal Synchronet version 3 for Win32 development began in 1999 Synchronet version 3 for Linux and FreeBSD development began in 2001 The name "Synchronet" was suggested by Steve Deppe (Ille Homine Albe) in 1991 Synchronet was originally developed as a replacement for WWIV BBS software The name "DOVE-Net" comes from: The Beast's DOmain / VErtrauen network The name "DOVE-Net" was suggested by King Drafus (sysop of The Beast's Domain) DOVE-Net was originally an exclusive ("elite") WWIVnet network in O.C., Calif Synchronet was the first BBS software to ship with built-in RIPscrip support Synchronet was the first BBS software to ship with internal QWK networking SBBSecho was originally written by Allen Christiansen (King Drafus) in 1994 SBBSecho was introduced (replacing SBBSFIDO) for Synchronet v2 in 1994 Synchronet first supported FidoNet networking (with SBBSFIDO) in 1992 "Vertrauen" (ver-trow-en) translates to "trust" in German, and was a band name Rob Swindell first learned to program in C by hacking on WWIV BBS software The first Synchronet BBS (Vertrauen) went live in July of 1991 (replacing WWIV) Michael Swindell was directly responsible for Synchronet's commercial success The first commericial sale of Synchronet was to Las Vegas Playground BBS (1992) The second ever Synchronet BBS was the Mid-Nite Hacker BBS (sysop: The Zapper) The third ever Synchronet BBS was The Beast's Domain (sysop: King Drafus) 1584 Synchronet BBS Software registrations were sold between 1992 and 1996 The Digital Dynamics company ceased day-to-day opperations in late 1995 The Synchronet Web Server was written predominantly by Stephen Hurd (Deuce) Rob Swindell (digital man) was born approximately 4 hours before the Unix epoch Rob Swindell's first computer was a Commodore VIC-20 (circa 1981) Rob Swindell first called BBSes (at 300bps) with an Apple II computer in 1982 The COM I/O routines for Synchronet for DOS were written in ASM by Steve Deppe The Synchronet IRC server (ircd) was written in JS by Randy Sommerfeld (Cyan) The second most prolific contributor to Synchronet is Stephen Hurd (Deuce) The Synchronet web user interface was contributed by Robert Couture, Runemaster The back-up synchro.net nameserver and CVS repository is hosted by Deuce The irc.synchro.net network has more servers than users Synchronet's Windows DLLs are built with Microsoft Visual Studio/C++ Synchronet's Windows Control Panel is built with Borland C++ Builder Synchronet first supported Windows NT-based operating systems w/v3.00b (2000) Synchronet first supported Windows NT v6.x (a.k.a. Vista/Win7) w/v3.14a (2006) Synchronet has been ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, QNX, and MacOS Synchronet's cross-platform library is called XPDEV (named before Windows XP) Rob Swindell was laughed out of a FidoNet Net103 (OC, Calif.) meeting in 1992 Synchronet added Baja/PCMS support with v2.00a (1994) Synchronet added JavaScript suppport with v3.10a (2001) Synchronet External "Plain Old Telephone System" support was introduced in 2007 Synchronet External X/Y/ZMODEM protocol driver (SEXYZ) was introduced in 2005 The Synchronet Museum is online at http://wiki.synchro.net/history:museum:index Synchronet directory naming (i.e. ctrl, exec, data) was suggested by S. Deppe Synchronet program was named 'sbbs' instead of 'sync' to avoid conflict w/Unix JAM and Squish were considered before developing Synchronet Message Base format Rob Swindell was introduced to BBSing in 1982 by his older brother, Dr. Seuss Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:index Synchronet Blackjack was the first multi-node/multi-user game for Synchronet The Synchronet source code consists of over 500,000 lines of C and C++ Synchronet Terminal Server introduced RLogin support w/v3.00c (2000) Synchronet Terminal Server introduced SecureShell (SSH) support w/v3.14a (2006) Synchronet introduced Telnet, FTP, SMTP and POP3 support w/v3.00a-Win32 in 2000 The last version of Synchronet to run on MS-DOS and OS/2 was v2.30c (1999) Synchronet swag used to be available for purchase at cafepress.com/synchronet Free dynamic yourbbs.synchro.net hostnames were made first available in 2003 How to get Synchronet technical support: http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:support Name of Synchronet PCMS compiler/language "Baja" was coined by Michael Swindell "Baja" (name of Synchronet PCMS compiler/languege) is pronounced "ba-ha" Synchronet PCMS (introduced w/v2.0) is Programmable Command and Menu Structure Synchronet can dynamically compress and uncompress message bases (using LZH) Synchronet was conceived of and mostly developed in southern California SEXYZ is as a 32-bit replacement for [F]DSZ, CE-XYZ and other protocol drivers Robert D. Bouman, the author of SyncEdit, died in the mid to late 1990s Download the BBS Documentary DVD set at http://bbsdocumentary.com/order/ Rob Swindell was interviewed for Jason Scott's BBS Documentary in July of 2002 The largest dial-up Synchronet BBS was The Easy Street BBS with 25 nodes/lines Synchronet CIOXTRN (created by Deuce) is a 32-bit replacement for DOORWAY SyncTERM (created by Deuce) contains portions of Synchronet and SEXYZ code Vertrauen went online (as a WWIV BBS running on a 10MHz PC-XT clone) in 1988 Rob's alias "digital man" was inspired by a song on Rush's 1982 "Signals" album Michael Swindell still has the "Synchronet Blimp" in his possession Rob Swindell still has dozens of BBS-related magazines in his possession Synchronet Match Maker had at one time over 4000 profiles of men and women 172 Synchronet Match Maker registrations were sold (@$69) between 1995 and 1996 85 SBBSecho registrations were sold (at $49) between 1994 and 1996 Vertrauen has had the FidoNet node number 1:103/705 since 1992 Flapuebarg unf vagreany ebg13 fhccbeg sbe fhcresvpvnyyl rapelcgvat grkg Donations to the Synchronet project are welcome at wiki.synchro.net/donate The Electronic Frontier Foundation used to run Synchronet (circa 1993) The ZMODEM file transfer protocol is limited to files of 4 gigabytes or smaller Stephen and Rob have a fledgling podcast at http://techdorks.net (also iTunes) Synchronet Message Base and its library, SMBLIB, was used by AXiS BBS Software SBBSecho v3.00 was first committed to cvs.synchro.net on Apr-11-2016 Rob played drums on the LP "Weedpuller" available for digital purchase/stream Synchronet/DSZ "hack" of '93: http://wiki.synchro.net/history:hack93 Captured chat with Wayne Bell: http://wiki.synchro.net/history:waynebell_chat Digital Man's manifesto from '96: http://wiki.synchro.net/history:manifesto Synchronet v3.17b was released on January 1 of 2019 (4 years after v3.16c) Synchronet v3.16c was released in August of 2015 (5 years after v3.15b) Synchronet v3.15b was released in October of 2011 (5 years after v3.14a) Synchronet v3.14a was released in December of 2006 (1 year after v3.13a) Synchronet v3.13a was released in September of 2005 (9 months after v3.12a) Synchronet v3.12a was released on December 31st of 2004 (Rob's birthday) The Synchronet Wiki (wiki.synchro.net) went online in April of 2010 You can leave a voicemail for The TechDorks (Stephen and I) at 951-523-7535 Avatars were added to Synchronet (backward compatible w/v3.16) in January 2018 Alternate and loadable font support was added to Synchronet in February 2018 Synchronet added PETSCII (e.g. C64/C128) terminal support in October of 2018 The official Synchronet YouTube channel went live on May 6, 2019 Synchronet YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Synchronet You're missing the action in #synchronet at irc.synchro.net! Weedpuller "Beat It Out Of You" http://youtu.be/xWZ6vFvx4Kg Weedpuller "Falling Star" http://youtu.be/J0ijOUT7KIw Weedpuller "Breakfast With You" http://youtu.be/f98p4B79ISM Weedpuller "Girl Upstairs" http://youtu.be/SVulVxkgNTo Weedpuller "World Of My Own" http://youtu.be/V-gmT5N6kYo Weedpuller "Congenial" http://youtu.be/MrN2Kwrj8lY Weedpuller "Assassin" http://youtu.be/opw9RPUOcv8 Weedpuller "Geographic" http://youtu.be/cpzBDVgmWSA Synchronet v3.18b was released on September 20, 2020 (22 months after v3.17b) Synchronet v1a r5 (for MS-DOS) was released on February 19, 1992 Synchronet v1b r0 (for MS-DOS) was released on September 25, 1992 Synchronet v1c r0 (for MS-DOS) was released on August 26, 1993 Synchronet v2.00a for DOS was released on June 6, 1994 (6 months after v1c02) Synchronet v2.10a for DOS was released on Feb 17, 1995 (5 months after v2.00g) Synchronet v2.20a for DOS was released on Aug 31, 1995 (5 months after v2.11a) Synchronet v2.30a (DOS & OS/2) was released on 5-30-97, 20 months after v2.20b Synchronet v2.30c (DOS & OS/2) was released on 12-14-99, 16 months after v2.30b The Loons - "Ten Inch Men" with Rob on drums: https://youtu.be/EBSlpojM4j0 Synchronet switched from CVS to Git on August 23, 2020 - git.synchro.net Synchronet feature requests: https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues Synchronet bug reports: https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues Synchronet v3.19b was released on January 2, 2022 (15 months after v3.18b) Vertrauen first started running Synchronet (switched from WWIV) in July of 1991