# File Listings

Many BBSes had "file sections", where you could use XMODEM (and later YMODEM, ZMODEM, KERMIT, and a bunch of other specifications) to download programs and files to your local machine, and run them. This was amazing; use the modem, get a program! Of course, over time, it became a point of pride to say how many programs you had online, and file sections grew to enormous sizes. Some captured file listings are presented below.

Why include such a mundane aspect of the BBS world? Well, for the same reason that it was great that people took random street shots of cities thoughout the last century. Even though they seemed boring and uneventful, the progression of time away from when the picture was taken gives it interest. Maybe someone will browse a file list and see a program that was their favorite; maybe they'll see that there was a embryonic version of a program they use to this day, that was billed a lot different. No matter; there's a thousand stories buried in these listings. You might hear them tell one to you.

Filename | Size | Description of the Textfile
170-609.asc | 134646 | Master Filelist for the Big Dreams FAXable CEC
access.lst | 153281 | FILELISTS: The Access System, Huntsville, AL (September 9, 1992)
access.old | 144526 | FILELISTS: The Access System, Huntsville, AL (July 20, 1992)
ajfafile.txt | 723820 | The Damage Incorporated File List and Collection of Paradise City BBS, from Blackened
allfile1.txt | 353248 | File List of the Matrix BBS (Birmingham, AL) (July, 1992)
allfile2.txt | 369950 | File List of the Matrix BBS (Birmingham, AL) (July, 1992)
allfile3.txt | 381864 | File List of the Matrix BBS (Birmingham, AL) (July, 1992)
allfiles.lst | 682403 | File List of the Owlabama MENSA BBS List (Birmingham, AL)
asblist.txt | 159562 | Listing of Files from the Altered States BBS
bbsfiles.cat | 23503 | FILE LISTING: The Datastorm BBS
catalog.6 | 2629 | FILELIST: Texts from the Wonderland BBS in Billerica MA (June 12, 1990)
cybahq.lst | 228635 | File List: CYBERSPACE Headquarters BBS (June 1993)
filearea.txt | 3891 | Altered States (BBS) Files Areas as of May 25th, 1992
filelist.txt | 399832 | FILELIST: The Temple of the Screaming Electron (June 6, 1992)
filelst.txt | 95636 | FILELIST: The Circuit Cellar BBS Master File List
files.bbs | 26787 | Large File Listing of all sorts of Typical Textfiles a BBS Might Have (Phreaking Oriented)
fuzzylogic.txt | 41524 | FILELIST: Fuzzy Logic BBS (Circa 1994)
liberty.txt | 8186 | File System of the Liberty Bell BBS
mastlist.txt | 422236 | File List of the Rocket City VBBS (Huntsville, AL) (April, 1992)
mbfile.txt | 1640280 | Huge Listing of Files from the MB BBS (March 15, 1993)
north444.lst | 104898 | Filelist for the Northern Lights BBS
owlabama.lst | 301689 | File List of the Owlabama MENSA BBS List (Birmingham, AL)
rocktcty.lst | 422236 | FILELIST: Rocket City VBBS (1992)
snakepit.dld.txt | 9764 | FILELIST: The Snakepit BBS (1989)
southexp.lst | 435177 | FILE LIST: Southern Express BBS (1992)
spacelnk.lst | 68608 | FILE LIST: NASA Spacelink File List (1992)
sysop.txt | 49626 | Complete File Listings of the Psychotronic BBS (March 31, 1992)
tdrfiles.txt | 346762 | FILELIST: The Dark Realm BBS in Sweden (January 3, 1993)
totlist.txt | 139482 | FILELIST: Never Never Land (Sweden)
totselist.txt | 697933 | File List of the Temple of the Screaming Electron BBS (June 8, 1993)
wfobbs.lst | 130602 | FILELIST: Werewolves From Outerspace (1,300 Files)

There are 31 files for a total of 8,703,216 bytes.