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 ...

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.

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 ...

The old-school bulletin board is making a comeback. Today, your employees are likely inundated by electronic communication, such as email. While efforts to distribute corporate communications ...

Soon a strong and local community of BBS'ers had emerged, and as their numbers grew, signs that a big shift was about to occur were popping up. Group chat had always been a big feature of early ...

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 ...

This is a short chapter for a couple of reasons. First off, it can be difficult to find a bulletin board system (BBS) in your area, and because the resources available for finding them vary from place ...