Subj : Re: CBBS officially went online 16 February 1978
To   : bcw142
From : Blue White
Date : Thu Feb 17 2022 04:35 pm

-=> bcw142 wrote to All <=-

 bc>    This is the anniversary of the very first BBS system, CBBS
 bc> officially went online today in 1978. It was the first public dial-up
 bc> BBS developed by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess. It started as
 bc> something to do during the blizzrd of 1978 when Christensen had a spare
 bc> S100 bus computer and early Hayes modem. It was designed to work like a
 bc> cork board at a local computer club and kept a count of callers. It
 bc> connected 253,301 calls before it was retired.

 bc> Your reading this on the modern version of that same system with a lot
 bc> more bells and whistles and Internet connection now, but still a BBS.

It would be neat to dial-up back into the past and see what CBBS actually
looked like vs. what BBSes look like today (or even vs. what they looked
like c1990).



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