Formosa BBS established in October 1992 by Professor Nien-Hsing Chen of the National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU).
The objective was to provide a means for professors, universities and students to communicate.
[1] Firebird BBS is one of two main telnet-based Bulletin board systems developed in Taiwan.
[1] Several derived BBS systems are based on its source code.
[5] Some popular sites like SMTH BBS and HKiBBS are using the derived system of the Firebird.