Christian just tweeted with a link to lists of old BBS’s
And so I ended up looking at this list for the UK in 1994 and thinking there’s a culturematic in doing the following:
- Bring the STD codes up to date (mostly “add a 1” but there have been other changes)
- Call each of the numbers on the list to see what response you get.
- If you talk to a person, write up the conversation. If you get a modem (!) there’s another project in finding out what’s going on.
Just y’know, if you like.
Perfect Path 
And notice the jump in baud rates between 1982 and 12 years later in 1994. Whopping speeds! Relative to the times, of course.
Yeah, the 14.4k modem that I had for “working at home” then didn’t exactly *zip* along!