It's probably actually gotten easier than it was 10 years ago when I got into some telnet and SSH bbs's (using older platforms that are still developed or have

It's probably actually gotten easier than it was 10 years ago when I got into some telnet and SSH bbs's (using older platforms that are still developed or have had adapted layers to repurpose them). Back then, searching for BBS would get you all sorts of phpbb sites because at least a good contingent of folks were using the term to refer both to the ANSI systems as well as web fora. Now that web fora are mostly replaced by the likes of Reddit, this seems less an issue.