2AM-BBS
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2AM-BBS was an early bulletin board system(BBS) originally developed in 1985 for the Epson QX-16 and soon ported to IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS. It was written in Turbo Pascal by Neil Clarke and Chris Gorman as students at Drew University. The team later grew to include Tom Vogl (programming) and Meryl Yourish (documentation). Collectively, they were known as the 2AM Associates.
2AM-BBS was a message-oriented BBS with strong forum and email capabilities for its time. Other features included download libraries, multiline support, trivia, voting, doors, and remote management. Users could be granted individual "privilege bits" to manage any number of areas of the site and many 2AM systems made extensive use of BaseOps, which are more commonly known as forum moderators today.
Although copies of this software were in use world-wide, it was considerably more popular in the New Jersey area. It was kept in production through 1997, when the home BBS, The Conspiracy Theory, shut its doors. The last shareware release was version 4.1 in 1997.
