Textboards is a great kind of BBS I find it sad that they are practically non-existent in the west.
Also fuck sonzaishinai world!
We really need a board for complaints.about how dead 4-ch is.
>Textboard from 1996 and outdated since 1998 is the future
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They are not outdated. You can say they were lost into obscurity. Still, there are Japanese websites that use similar software, but remained lesser known than Futaba and 2channel.
http://honten.info/bbs/cgi-bin/bbs.cgi
http://misao.mixh.jp/cgi-bin/bbs.cgi (extremely active)
Nice place to visit.