It's a sad week if you've ever posted on a social network or an internet forum. Randy Suess, the creator of the software for first online public bulletin board, died on December 10th at the age of 74.

Before we had always-available, fast connections to multiple servers, we had dial-up modems and bulletin board systems (BBS). And it wasn’t even that long ago. One weird little quirk about being human ...

Christensen was a computer scientist credited with creating the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) in 1978, which let users exchange information through a dial-up connection. Although ...

Christensen and Suess dubbed the system “Ward and Randy’s Computerized Bulletin Board System,” or CBBS. It was, as the name suggested, an electronic version of the community bulletin boards that you ...

Limited to an anachronistic 1200 bits per second, it took several moments for the green-phosphor ASCII art to scroll from the bottom to the top of the screen. A login prompt and a blinking cursor ...

When you think about how to communicate on today’s internet, places like Reddit, eBaum’s World, Facebook, Twitter, and online forums are key. Unlike social media, which is more free-for-all, online ...

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Christensen co-developed the world's very first computer bulletin board system, and also created the popular XMODEM file transfer protocol. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

We received belated word this week of the passage of Ward Christensen, who died unexpectedly back in October at the age of 78. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, that’s understandable, because the man ...