Tuesday, March 26, 2019

How Humble BBS Begat Wired World

Remember when there was no e-mail or instant messaging? Reaching out to touch someone digitally once meant you had to dial into a phone line through your Trash-80 PC, type a message, post it to an online bulletin board and then wait weeks – or more often months – to get a response.

Before America Online, Friendster, forums and blogs, geeks communicated with one another in a clunky and pedestrian way that was the precursor to all subsequent forms of online communication.

Read on: 
https://www.wired.com/2005/06/how-humble-bbs-begat-wired-world/



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