Many BBS systems provided Internet access to newsgroups and IRC chat. Many BBS systems had become ISPs in order to survive. In the early to mid 1990's many BBS

Many BBS systems provided Internet access to newsgroups and IRC chat. Many BBS systems had become ISPs in order to survive. In the early to mid 1990's many BBS operators had invested in an ISDN Internet modem and then SLIP/PPP access on their BBS to become ISPs via rows of MODEMS. Once the telecommunication and cable companies got into Internet access providing they bought out the ISPs to get customers. Once DSL and Cable Modems because less expensive and people left dial-up MODEMS these BBSes hard started to die. There still exists a part of BBS culture here: http://www.synchro.net/ http://www.synchro.net/ An Internet based BBS system that uses Telenet.