WWIV boards were small, personal, intensely local systems where the software mattered less than the people, handles, rivalries, taglines, and late-night message traffic.
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Club Dead
A WWIV BBS remembered from the far side of the dial tone.
Club Dead appears to have slipped out of the searchable web with the rest of the turn-of-the-century BBS underground. The remembered ANSI mark was a red and blue, lightbulb-like riff on the Grateful Dead's Steal Your Face skull; this page uses a reconstruction until the original art pack turns up.
The original red/blue ANSI lightbulb artwork is still missing. If an old art pack, screenshot, backup tape, or dusty ZIP file turns up, this page can become a real restoration.
This landing page is deliberately terminal-first: scanlines, monochrome glow, menu keys, and enough phosphor burn to make a 14.4 modem feel young again.