Oh wow, Metropoli is still alive? I haven't seen that domain in ages.
I was actually active on the BBS back in the day, years before WWW came on the scene and blew up the internet. Hell, I think my first widely known email address would have been @mpoli.fi one - and, this being in early 1990s, I actually walked over to the owner's house to pay the account creation fee in person.
As far as the tech scene goes, you can probably trace most of the Finnish old guard to that system.
The Internet Archive has a copy too: https://archive.org/details/2008-12-23_ftp.support.lotus.com