1978: Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launch the first public dialup bulletin board system. The two unleash the kernel of what would eventually spawn the world wide web, countless online ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...