History in Community
StarDoc 134 was used as a testbed for many new modifications and program changes to the WWIV BBS community, submitting many mods over the 6 years that it ran WWIV. The BBS also was a registration point for the software brand RAMSOFT which provided a number of BBS door programs and SysOp Utilities. The BBS allowed users to process automated online registration via credit cards for instant registration. StarDoc 134 was one of the first and only WWIV BBS's to support online credit card processing for software.
StarDoc 134 was also one of the few BBS's that introduced true internet mail and basic web access to its users free of charge. The BBS had a dedicated SLIP connection to the internet. Email addressers were enumerated and often hard to remember, (RamMan#StarDoc134@inet.wwivnode.net for example). Despite the difficult internet email names, the feature became very popular with thousands of local users who could not afford to purchase internet mail themselves. The board also allowed access to Usenet groups and limited text web browsing. All internet functions were handled by a UNIX server located at Fresno State University.
Many C and Assembly libraries that were written to expand the functions of the BBS were later used in future versions of door programs and internet email integrations.
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