Two years ago, Kevin Behrens of west suburban Aurora was an electrician scrabbling to make a living between layoffs. Now Behrens makes his living with a modem card plugged into his computer instead of ...

Limited to an anachronistic 1200 bits per second, it took several moments for the green-phosphor ASCII art to scroll from the bottom to the top of the screen. A login prompt and a blinking cursor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

For a couple of years I’ve been a “sysop” — jargon for a computer bulletin board system (BBS) operator. At first the BBS was purely to let me, a deaf person, phone home to my family. I set up my old ...

An electronic bulletin board system that delivers video, information, advertisements etc. over the Internet in a timely manner to displays installed at shops, transportation facilities, campuses, ...

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 ...