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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.
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 ...
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; SDF Public ...
FBB (F6FBB) – packet radio BBS system, still in use. [5] GBBS (Graphics BBS) – used in the Melbourne area. GT-Power; L.S.D. BBS – written by The Slavelord of The Humble Guys (THG). The Major BBS; Maximus; McBBS – by Derek E. McDonald. Opus-CBCS – first written by Wynn Wagner III. PCBoard; PegaSys; ProBoard BBS – written by Philippe ...
Ward Leon Christensen (October 23, 1945 – October 11, 2024) was an American computer scientist who was the inventor of the XMODEM file transfer protocol and a co-founder of the CBBS bulletin board, the first bulletin board system (BBS) ever brought online.
Randy John Suess (January 27, 1945 – December 10, 2019) [1] was the co-founder of the CBBS bulletin board, the first bulletin board system (BBS) ever brought online. [2] Suess, along with collaborator Ward Christensen, whom he met when they were both members of the Chicago Area Computer Hobbyists’ Exchange, or CACHE, started development of CBBS during a blizzard in Chicago, Illinois, and ...
ISCABBS, also known as ISCA, is a computer bulletin board system ("BBS"), formerly based at the University of Iowa. "Daves' own version of Citadel" (DOC), an early branch of the Citadel/UX BBS software, was developed to run ISCA. Like most Citadels, the focus is almost entirely on conversation among users.
Pages in category "Bulletin board systems" ... Electronic Information Exchange System; Event Horizons BBS; ExecPC BBS; F. Falken (bulletin board system) ...