Monochrome BBS

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Monochrome BBS, known to users as "Mono", was originally a student bulletin board system at City University in the early 1990s, consisting mainly of a set of discussion files organised into a tree structure: there are collections of files on current affairs, technology, medicine, entertainment, lifestyles, various hobbies and sports, and so on.

The system was originally written by David Brownlee as a final year project. After nine years it moved out of City and into private hosting. Most of the first users were from City, but there was soon a mix from other JANET sites; few of its current users are now students.

Monochrome is only available via telnet or SSH; there is no web front end, although a Java-based Telnet client is available on Monochrome's web site.

External links

Monochrome (http://www.mono.org/)
Users currently on, along with what files they're reading or editing (http://www.mono.org/utils/users_on.shtml)
Text of 1994 article in .net magazine about the BBS (http://www.whang.demon.co.uk/andy/mono/aboutmono.html); scan of same article (http://www.mono.org/~fade/monochromecity.jpg).

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