First Internet Backgammon Server
FIBS is the First Internet Backgammon Server, it allows Internet users to play backgammon in real-time against real people (and even some bots). There are players of every conceivable ability logging onto FIBS, from absolute beginners to serious backgammon champion contenders.
Brief history of FIBS
The First Internet Backgammon Server, FIBS, is the earliest online backgammon community. Created by Andreas (marvin) Schneider, FIBS has been in operation since July 19, 1992. Early Fibsters played backgammon using a simple command line interface known as telnet (telnet is still the underlying protocol of FIBS, see the Connecting page for more information). The first graphical interfaces to FIBS appeared in 1994, with FIBS/W for Windows users and MacFIBS for Macintosh users. Today, FIBS players can choose from a number of excellent graphical interfaces, making FIBS backgammon a more natural and enjoyable experience. Originally located in Germany, the FIBS server moved to Sweden in 1993, and moved again in 1996 to its present location in California, where it runs on a Linux system managed by Patti Beadles. Although now abandoned by its creator, FIBS continues to develop through the work of volunteers. All the interfaces, RepBot, TourneyBot, FIBS Board and this website you're currently reading are all the works of others independently contributing towards the FIBS community. The FIBS archive has the original announcement for the launch of FIBS plus other bits and pieces.
For more information on FIBS visit www.fibs.com
Reproduced courtesy of Fibs.com