AdeptXBBS

AdeptXBBS was a BBS originally written explicitly for the OS/2 operating system in 1994. At that time the BBS sub-culture was at its height, and the Internet had not yet become a widely used tool. As a result, the authors wrote this system to compete with the many DOS based BBS systems available in commercial markets. It was believed that the OS/2 operating system (which arguably had better memory management and protection than the DOS and MS Windows 3.x versions available at the time) would propel this new BBS as a leader.

While AdeptXBBS was completed with much of the functionality, features, and performance initially promised, the product never reached the popularity that the authors hoped and then faded away. In particular the world of Client/Server BBS systems took hold, the Internet came into wide use, and free operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD which could act as dialin/telnet servers gained popularity, making most all BBS systems obsolete.

One of the main authors of AdeptXBBS once claimed that the World Wide Web and Mosaic were brain-dead inventions that would quickly fade away in favor of good BBS software.Fact|date=February 2007

AdeptXBBS was based on XBBS by Mark Kimes and was licensed by AdeptSoft of Boca Raton, Florida. AdeptSoft was composed of John Lawlor (financial backer), and programmers Steven Tower, Gordon Zeglinski, and John Morris [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.os2.announce/tree/browse_frm/month/1996-03?_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.os.os2.announce%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F1996-03%3F&] (who was remotely based in Nevada).

AdeptXBBS development was discontinued due the decline of OS/2 and the rise of the Internet.

John Lawlor co-founded EmailChannel.com, an early ESP (Email Service Provider), in 1995.