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A welcome screen for the Free-net bulletin board, from 1994. 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.
This is an incomplete list of notable bulletin board systems: CBBS – the first BBS on record, established 1978; Celco 51 – used by the United States Secret Service during the Operation Cybersnare sting; Demon Roach Underground – popular hacker BBS and former home of the CULT OF THE DEAD COW
Welcome banner for a Free-Net bulletin board system, 1994. A free-net was originally a computer system or network that provided public access to digital resources and community information, including personal communications, through modem dialup via the public switched telephone network. The concept originated in the health sciences to provide ...
Community Memory terminal at Leopold's Records, Berkeley, CA, 1973. Community Memory (CM) was the first public computerized bulletin board system.Established in 1973 in Berkeley, California, it used an SDS 940 timesharing system in San Francisco connected via a 110 baud link to a teleprinter at a record store in Berkeley to let users enter and retrieve messages.
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 ...
CBBS ("Computerized Bulletin Board System") was a computer program created by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess to allow them and other computer hobbyists to exchange information between each other. [1] [2] [3] In January 1978, Chicago was hit by the Great Blizzard of 1978, which dumped record amounts of snow throughout the Midwest. Among those ...
In the late 1980s, trans youth started going online to connect with others experiencing gender dysphoria. non157/iStock via Getty ImagesFollow coverage of trans issues, and you’ll hear some ...
The front page of textfiles.com in 2004. textfiles.com is a website dedicated to preserving the digital documents that contain the history of the bulletin board system (BBS) world and various subcultures, [1] and thus providing "a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange allowed them". [2]