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The 25th Anniversary of the BBS
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."
OK, this web site, despite being a great idea, sucks. It's utterly unusable in Galeon, Konqueror and lynx, and only useable in Netscape 4 if you edit the GET URL and replace all the spaces with "%20". While it's obviously designed to work with IE, has anyone managed to get anywhere with anything available on Linux?