The Great Earthquake of `89 shook the San Francisco Bay area for a little less than a minute. A little less than a minute later, the Network Nation was up and running, telling the world what had ...

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.

A bulletin board system, also known as a BBS, serves as an unofficial information network for computer users nationwide. In the Chicago area alone, there are probably hundreds of bulletin board ...

On January 16, 1978, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess began work on the first bulletin board system, the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS), but they may not have done so if it weren’t for the ...

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 ...

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

*He was 74. A very typical cultural figure of the personal computer era. Like: I've got one, it's personal, I'll just do it myself. And then: "hey look, everybody," which was the end of that paradigm, ...

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 ...