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These early systems shaped the web

When you think about how to communicate on today’s internet, places like Reddit, eBaum’s World, Facebook, Twitter, and online ...
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bulletin board system

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.
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Dead Media Beat: bulletin board systems

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 ...
PC Gamer

Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the BBS and internet pioneer, has died

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 ...
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Ward Christensen, co-creator of the first online bulletin board, has died.

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 ...
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Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the BBS and internet pioneer, has died

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: BBS: The Documentary, via Wikimedia Commons (Jscott) Ars Technica reports that Ward ...