The 80s and 90s were the glory days of the BBS. The plain old telephone system was responsible for bringing us connection to other digital beings, along with plenty of spuriously-obtained software and ...

Before we had always-available, fast connections to multiple servers, we had dial-up modems and bulletin board systems (BBS). And it wasn’t even that long ago. One weird little quirk about being human ...

Christensen and Suess dubbed the system “Ward and Randy’s Computerized Bulletin Board System,” or CBBS. It was, as the name suggested, an electronic version of the community bulletin boards that you ...

A 1978 Chicago snowstorm sparked an innovation: the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS). Two hobbyists connected a computer to a phone line, enabling remote message exchange and file sharing.

It's a sad week if you've ever posted on a social network or an internet forum. Randy Suess, the creator of the software for first online public bulletin board, died on December 10th at the age of 74.

Electronic bulletin boards (also known as message boards or as computer forums) are online communication systems where one can share, request, or discuss information on just about any subject. E-mail ...

Christensen was a computer scientist credited with creating the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) in 1978, which let users exchange information through a dial-up connection. Although ...

So was I the only poor soul connecting at 300 baud with my C64? 1200 baud... That's some high dollar stuff back then Click to expand... When I first started using CIS (CompuServe), 300 baud was the ...