- TAG (BBS)
TAG is a
DOS -basedbulletin board system (BBS)software program , released from1986 to2000 .TAG was written in
Borland Pascal and is free for business or personal use (They considered it fun to give the program away while others tried charge for them). Fact|date=September 2008Authors over the years: Victor Capton, Randy Goebel, Alan Jurison, Paul Loeber, Robert Numerick and Paul Williams.All live in the
Detroit (MI) area except Alan Jurison who lives inSyracuse (NY) .Peak number of running systems: Just over 1000, mostly in the
US andCanada . Areas of major TAG BBS concentrations:Michigan :Detroit (where it started),Lansing ,Flint andBattle Creek California :Oakland Connecticut :Hartford Florida :Jacksonville andCocoa Maryland :Baltimore .New Jersey :Newark New York :Syracuse North Carolina :Raleigh Ontario Canada :Windsor andHamilton Pennsylvania :Pittsburgh Texas :Houston ,Beaumont andFort Worth Virginia :Norfolk A quote from one of the authors:"We all poured countless hours into the development and support of people running BBSs. Even today I don't think the internet has come close to the sense of community and simple accomplishment that BBSing provided. Building and running a complete environment on your local computer and watching people use it is a far different experience than putting up a web page on some remote server. We all made and still have a great many friends from being sysops and BBS developers."
Other Notes:No one ever got them to answer definitively on what their name stood for, but there was a reasonably reliable rumor that it was from "The Adventurer's Guild" which was a
Dungeons and Dragons sort of reference.Fact|date=September 2008References
* [http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/IBM/DOS/TAG/ TAG] at The BBS software directory (with downloadable TAG software)
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