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https://insight.ieeeusa.org/articles/your-engineering-heritage-bulletin-board-systems/
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IEEE-USA InSight · Your Engineering Heritage: Bulletin Board SystemsBefore the World Wide Web became popular in the mid 1990s, millions of people used bulletin board systems as their primary method of getting online.
![Screenshot from the beginner's guide on the mono web page.
Connecting to Monochrome
To login to Monochrome, click on the 'connect' link above to access all the options for connecting. Once you have connected, login as user: mono, then enter your account name at the Account: prompt. If you do not have an account, use 'guest' as the account name.
Conventions
Throughout Monochrome, the following conventions are used for navigation:
Square brackets denote individual keypresses. Thus [S][I] means that you should press the S key followed by the I key.
[^X] means Control-X - press them at the same time.
Angle brackets denote keypaths, generally from the Main Menu. Thus "go to <IHU>" means that you should go to the Main Menu (type [ESC][G]), then type [I][H][U] to go to the file or menu in question. A '^' in keypaths is often used to denote [ESCAPE], for instance, <^Y>.
Help
The bottom of the screen shows the most commonly used options. You can press [?] to see the help. If you need more help than that, press [C] to continue on in the help text or go to <IH> within Monochrome.](https://storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_011f6e315d3744d498d93f6fa0d9b5ee/qotoorg/media_attachments/files/111/341/631/302/974/687/original/5f3a1cb6765788c9.png "Screenshot from the beginner's guide on the mono web page.
Connecting to Monochrome
To login to Monochrome, click on the 'connect' link above to access all the options for connecting. Once you have connected, login as user: mono, then enter your account name at the Account: prompt. If you do not have an account, use 'guest' as the account name.
Conventions
Throughout Monochrome, the following conventions are used for navigation:
Square brackets denote individual keypresses. Thus [S][I] means that you should press the S key followed by the I key.
[^X] means Control-X - press them at the same time.
Angle brackets denote keypaths, generally from the Main Menu. Thus \"go to <IHU>\" means that you should go to the Main Menu (type [ESC][G]), then type [I][H][U] to go to the file or menu in question. A '^' in keypaths is often used to denote [ESCAPE], for instance, <^Y>.
Help
The bottom of the screen shows the most commonly used options. You can press [?] to see the help. If you need more help than that, press [C] to continue on in the help text or go to <IH> within Monochrome.")
![Mono BBS main menu. A banner fills the top 3rd of the screen, with a coloured text advert for a section on Fashion. The Keypath is shown.
In the middle, the top level menus are shown, with the keypress required to get into each. E.g. [T] to Enter Science, [T]echnology and Medicine.
At the bottom is a message saying "Hello 'Guest User'. 4 other users at Thu Nov 2"](https://storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_011f6e315d3744d498d93f6fa0d9b5ee/qotoorg/media_attachments/files/111/341/661/930/443/049/original/020ee3d0643883f4.png "Mono BBS main menu. A banner fills the top 3rd of the screen, with a coloured text advert for a section on Fashion. The Keypath is shown.
In the middle, the top level menus are shown, with the keypress required to get into each. E.g. [T] to Enter Science, [T]echnology and Medicine.
At the bottom is a message saying \"Hello 'Guest User'. 4 other users at Thu Nov 2\"")
