At its peak, the most popular such network of BBS-es (known as FidoNet) consisted of over 39,000 dial-up, bulletin board systems across the world. The inner workings of these systems was ...

Eventually, the early world wide web supplanted the bulletin boards, but even today the humble ... Also worth seeing for an even more in-depth look at the history of the BBS is Scott's film ...

Bulletin board systems — or BBS — were born in Chicago in 1978. Eventually, there were more than 100,000 of them across the country, a precursor of today's World Wide Web. Tom Jennings was one ...

History holds February ... CBBS lead to other bulletin board systems (BBS), which lead to today’s forums. On February 16, 2003, Chicago’s mayor declared the day “BBS day” in honor of the world’s first ...

Together, these and many other Lehigh Valley systems represent an informal network of computer bulletin boards, some with ... and universities around the world, is perhaps the existing network ...