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The 25th Anniversary of the BBS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the arbitrary-dates dept.

Jason Scott writes "25 years ago today, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess officially announced the creation of a little project they threw together with a 300 baud Hayes modem, a Z-80 based S-100 computer, and a phone line. They called it "Chicago Bulletin Board System" (CBBS) and it was the first dial-up BBS. From this beginning, BBSes grew into the many thousands and became an entire industry, and when the Internet started to mature with the World Wide Web, the users who had cut their teeth on BBSes moved over to it. So raise a toast to these two fellows for a quarter century of great online times."

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  1. When BBS's were the "cool thing" by ChesireKat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm not personally REALLY in that time frame when BBS's were truly the "thing" but... :D hey, remember when? *chuckle* how times have changed

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  2. Re:If you want to go back: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hahaha.. Now even BBSes are going to get slashdotted ;-)

  3. BBS Documentary movie / website ! by MobileDude · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The website listed below is a guy personally financing a documentary about BBS'.

    I owe my current career (computer engineer) over the fun I had with Mustang Wildcat! and RA back in the 80's.

    http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/

    2400 baud! roXor!

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