#cbbs — Public Fediverse posts
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Happy BBSday !!
On this day today in 1978, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess took the world's first bulletin board system (the "CBBS") officially online.
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R.I.P. Ward Christensen
Co-Creator of one of the earliest forms of Social Media — BBS
#BBS #CBBS #retroComputing #socialMedia #vintageComputing #wardChristensen
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Ward Christensen, Wisconsin native, last surviving co-inventor of the first computer bulletin board, and great-great grandfather of Mastodon, has died.
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Today, 46 Years ago the first #bbs goes online.
On February 16th 1977 in Chicago (IL,USA) Ward
Christensen and Randy Suess are about to finishing the last steps before switching the #CBBS #online.The CBBS was the first Computerized #bulletin #board #system and would not only mark the Milestone for the Onlineage. It also allowed to invent and grow subcultures like the #demoscene. If your computer had a modem attached to it you could explore the world though it, since you're no longer physical bound to a location to do so.
In the upcoming years of #bbsing the #ansi char set would spark a whole #ArtScene that is still
present and activ today. The #ANSIart Scene. Even the exchange of text messages and files would break out of the local BBS. Tom Jennings created the #fidonet which was no less than a network that spans the world and allows the communication beyond all borders.
