This is the final part of a three-part series. In this post I’m going to discuss Fire Escape’s BBS directory formats, the directory parser and the dataset; I’ll also give some caveats about this data.

This is the second part of a three-part series. It’s chart time! In this post you can explore several graphs that show facets of the St. Louis BBS scene.

This is the first part of a three-part series. If there was a superstar of St. Louis BBSes during the 1990s, it had to be Fire Escape.