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pcmicro. Plover-NET – early hacker BBS, origins of hacker group Legion of Doom. PTT Bulletin Board System – largest BBS in Taiwan, still the most popular online forum in 2018. Purple Ocean – one of the largest North American Gaming BBS's of in the mid-1980s. Rusty n Edie's BBS – raided by the FBI in 1993 and sued by Playboy in 1997.
Big Brothers Big Sisters received the American Institute of Philanthropy's highest rating, an A+. [8] In 2011, Philanthropedia listed BBBS as the #1 Nonprofit for At-Risk Youth. [9] In 2013, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) found itself at the center of a scandal involving grant funding, which led to sweeping changes at the organization.
A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), [1] is a computer server running software that allowed users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user could perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging ...
The American web portal and online service was a pioneer in the internet era and its iconic “You’ve Got Mail” phrase has been used in countless pop culture references. But one of its biggest ...
Missouri (BB-63), famous for being the ship on which the Japanese instrument of surrender was signed, was the last battleship in the world to be decommissioned on 31 March 1992. Seven of these ten ships are still in existence. South Dakota,Washington and Indiana were scrapped, but the remainder are now museum ships.
September 8 – The RIAA begins filing lawsuits against individuals allegedly sharing files on P2P networks such as Kazaa. [62] November – Winny source code is confiscated by the Kyoto Police. November 21 – The Pirate Bay (TPB) bittorrent tracker is founded by Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, and Peter Sunde.
FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used for communication between bulletin board systems (BBSes). It uses a store-and-forward system to exchange private (email) and public (forum) messages between the BBSes in the network, as well as other files and protocols in some cases. The FidoNet system was based on several small interacting ...
CompuServe, Inc. (CompuServe Information Service, Inc., also known by its initialism CIS or later CSi) was an American online service, the first major commercial one in the world. It opened in 1969 as a timesharing and remote access service marketed to corporations. After a successful 1979 venture selling otherwise under-utilized after-hours ...