Wired News: 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." (full article at link)

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Ah, those bygone days of 300 baud modems, kermit, and command line protocols: BBS: The Documentary.
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