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by Mike Masnick




Anniversary Of The First BBS

from the it's-a-blizzard---time-to-innovate dept

With the current storm that has blanketed the east coast, I guess it's only fitting to remember the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first computer bulletin board system (more popularly known, of course, simply as a BBS), which came about as an idea during a blizzard that left a programmer stranded indoors with too much time on his hands.

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