Oh those golden times! I used BBS sites about three years before web boom started around 1995.

Note that web didn't just kill BBSes, but also important internet services such as Archie and Gopher were soon dead. It is amazing how the usenet has managed to survive this long.

For me the best thing in BBS systems were (not necessary in this order :) porn pictures, warez, turn based multiplayer games and local discussion forums. I also used to read some usenet-style inter-BBS forums, but can't recall anymore what was the technology or if it was some centrally administered / controlled system here in Finland.

Definitely going to add those documents to my long todo list!