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Chinet -- Public Access UNIX since 1982 |
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Telnet to chinet.chinet.com and login as newuser with password of "NoBody". Chinet is the first public access UNIX system in the country. It has been running for about 13 years as chinet, and about a year before that as wlcrjs. My name is Randy Suess, and myself and Ward Christensen invented the first bbs in 1978 with CBBS/Chicago. I got interested in UNIX a number of years ago, and put up wlcrjs with a pair of Altos 586's Worknetted together. I obtained a news feed from ihnp4, and for a number of years was the primary news and email feed in the Chicago area. Chinet went from the Altos to various other systems over the years. It is now on a Dual 100 Pentium machine running Unixware 2.0.3 It has over 6 gigs of disk. We receive a full news feed via chinet's own satellite system. There are 4 V.32bis modems for guests and 2 v.34bis modems for contribs. We run the PicoSpan conferencing system, the same multiuser BBS that The Well runs. Guest dial-in number is (312) 286-0519. For security purposes, and to help pay for the fones, chinet has guest access and contributor access. Guest's have access to full UNIX, off site email, either directly or via POP, telnet, irc, Internet talk, and the picospan conferencing system. Guests can read but not post to usenet on weekends. No ftp or lynx access. Allowing free access to chinet and allowing ftp or web access would be too much of a temptation for hackers and others bent on destroying things. There are NO BOTS allowed on chinet, anyone seen running any kind of bot or abusing irc privileges in any way will be removed. Guests can have a small home page, no large images or multimedia. Put your index.html in a directory called public_html. When running the newuser program, you must use your real name, not any handles like "Black Night". Any guests found downloading software to get around these restrictions will be removed from chinet. There are other sites that may have less restrictions. Chinet is connected to the Internet as chinet.chinet.com for access via telnet. Chinet also has a web page, http://www.chinet.com. |