Based in Eugene, OR. Proudly serving as an ad-free, tracker-free, "small-tech" alternative to social media since 2025. Open to anyone in the area (as loosely as you'd like to define that).
Emerald Valley BBS is a real terminal system. The best way to use it is to connect directly with SyncTERM — a free terminal emulator that gives you the full ANSI color, sound, and font experience the BBS is actually designed for.
The terminal window above is a browser-based convenience. Someone figured out how to tunnel a live telnet session over WebSocket and render it in a webpage — which is genuinely neat — but it's a secondary option. Your keystrokes go directly to the BBS in real time; nothing here is simulated. It just won't look or feel quite as good as a proper terminal client.
New Users: Click the "Connect to BBS" button above and type "NEW" to create your account.
Existing Users: Click "Login" at the top right of the page, or use the terminal window above. Note: when you use the webpage login (top right) it's really just this webpage interacting with the bbs as a backend and is there for convenience.