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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...