1978: Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launch the first public dialup bulletin board system. The two unleash the kernel of what would eventually spawn the world wide web, countless online messaging ...

I have a vivid, recurring dream. I climb the stairs in my parents’ house to see my old bedroom. In the back corner, I hear a faint humming. It’s my old computer, still running my 1990s-era bulletin ...

Before we had always-available, fast connections to multiple servers, we had dial-up modems and bulletin board systems (BBS). And it wasn’t even that long ago. One weird little quirk about being human ...

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 ...

The 80s and 90s were the glory days of the BBS. The plain old telephone system was responsible for bringing us connection to other digital beings, along with plenty of spuriously-obtained software and ...

Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), has died at age 78 in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. He was found deceased at his home on Friday after friends requested a ...

Before the internet became widespread, people connected to online services called 'BBS (Bulletin Board System).' A blog recently featured a photograph that symbolizes that era. The following photo was ...

Explore what online gaming looked like in the early 1990s, aka Bulletin Board Systems. Before the Internet linked up every American household, PC users still found ways to make remote contact—and play ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from BBS (Bulletin Board System) Magica Magical Girl Programming ︎ auto-battle! An office worker is assigned to manage a fan exchange bulletin board when she was ...