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Some of the first forum systems were the Planet-Forum system, developed at the beginning of the 1970s; the EIES system, first operational in 1976; and the KOM system, first operational in 1977. One of the first forum sites (which is still active today) is Delphi Forums, once called Delphi. The service, with four million members, dates to 1983.
Forum 80 – based in Kingston upon Hull, the UK's first BBS, started in 1980; ISCABBS – largest worldwide BBS, formerly located at the University of Iowa, and still both running and active as of 2024. MindVox – famous New York based BBS and internet service provider founded by members of Legion of Doom
A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), [1] is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program.
Citadel – originally written for the CP/M operating system, had many forks for different systems under different names. CONFER – CONFER II [citation needed] on the MTS, CONFER U on Unix and CONFER V on VAX/VMS, written by Robert Parnes starting in 1975. Mystic BBS – written by James Coyle with versions for Windows/Linux/ARM Linux/OSX ...
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. [1] They are an element of social media technologies which take on many different forms including blogs, business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, products/services review, social bookmarking, social gaming, social ...
The system was called EMISARI and would allow 10 regional offices to link together in a real-time online chat known as the party line. It was in use up until 1986. The first public online chat system was called Talkomatic, created by Doug Brown and David R. Woolley in 1973 on the PLATO System at the University of Illinois. It offered several ...
Decade Description 1970s–1980s The PLATO system (developed at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation) offers early forms of social media with Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowd-sourced online newspaper, and blog; and ...
A forum cannot succeed unless there is an effective system of defense, and an efficient set of tools for spam removal. CAPTCHAs are a common feature used among most internet forum software and are often used to prevent automated registrations.