About Us

In 1989 Jack Porter opened a small bulletin board system (BBS) in Madera called Zen Den Systems. The one-line BBS ran on the commercial Wildcat software, while many of the other boards in the area used a free software called Opus. ZDS was a part of the FIDO-Net system at the time and there was controversy with the Fresno boards because of it. For the next five years, the bulletin board grew and was named the 11^th most popular board in North America by Boardwatch Magazine in 1991.