Thursday, February 17, 2011

BBS

The first computer bulletin board system (BBS) went live on February 16, 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. During a winter blizzard, Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss pieced together a computerized answering machine and message center that allowed fellow computer hobbyists to send and receive announcements and meeting notes. They called it the Computerized Bulletin Board System.
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