What is the Olymp

The Olymp is a BBS in layman's terms its a bulletin board system where users can come, chat and post messages and get responses. It is a system based on the telnet protocol. In order to connect to it you will have to have a telnet client, or a java enabled browser in order to take advantage of the java applet that can run in your existing browser window.

Connecting - windows users:

If you use Windows, you might want to get PuTTY [Executable , Installer], a free ssh client that doesn't even need to be installed, you can just run the binary.

• In the "hostname"-field, just enter "olymp.idle.at", and click connect.
• As username, enter "bbs".

Connecting - linux users:

If you use Linux, ssh should be already installed.

• Just start some terminal application (like xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal) with black background and white foreground (-bg black -fg white)
• run "ssh -x bbs@olymp.idle.at" and you're good to go.

Warning: You should connect using an ssh client.