For many (including myself, it turns out), it would be easy to mistake a bulletin board system for some kind of first-generation website without understanding the fundamental differences between ...

of Pop Omniscience), and it marked one of the rare occasions when anyone else at the Pioneer Press reported something for Bulletin Board. A few people in the early years — notably Shefchik and ...

But decades before Craig Newmark posted his first list, computer users all over the country were connecting through electronic bulletin boards. Bulletin board systems — or BBS — were born in ...

After Christensen and colleague Randy Suess computerized this method of communications, the name of the first BBS system was born: Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS. During their zenith ...

Group chat had always been a big feature of early Bulletin Boards and around 1997, rumors were starting to spread that there was a global infrastructure being laid out which could have the potential ...

Prior to creating the first BBS, Christensen invented XMODEM ... "They finished the bulletin board in two weeks but they called it four because they didn't want people to feel that it was rushed ...