A Brief History of Alcoholiday

Alcoholiday BBS! Est. 1995, reborn in 2001, and born yet again in 2015. Running Mystic on a Raspberry Pi 2, a dozen message nets, three stylish themes (custom art by Blocktronics, Impure and more). "The online cyber keg party."

Alcoholiday is not an "art board" per se, but a board that appreciates good art -- both of the "Amiga ASCII" and CP437 ANSI variety. Our main theme is called "Danger Girl" and is inspired by deadly women of comic books.

"The West Gate" is Alcoholiday's more mystical alter-ego, based on the symbolism of Freemasonry, and is available as a theme at login. We also have an "Xpress" theme that is purely ASCII-based and aspires to emulate Amiga BBS software such as AmigaExpress.

Alcoholiday has very few file areas, as we believe the spirit of the traditional bulletin board is within its message bases. However we are an official Blocktronics and iMPURE distribution site, and we do feature a handful of unique file bases for retro esotericism.

We suggest Netrunner or Syncterm for the best experience. Both clients will automagically change fonts so ASCII resembles its traditional Amiga font, and ANSI blocks are represented properly. Learn more or connect in your web browser.

Be sure to follow Alcoholiday on Twitter @alcoholidaybbs as I post all sorts of BBS-related stuff there.

-Zero Reader

Video: Mysticguy's Review of Alcoholiday BBS

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Future Projects

In this day and age, why run just one BBS? I have several alternatives in the works. Stay tuned!