Jun 14 2008
The BBS - re-establishing connection
With no established internet for the casual home computer user there was no longer the ability to connect computer-to-computer. It didn’t take long though until the Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) entered the stage and provided a basic mean to re-establish this connection.
A BBS was a computer that acted as a node in a larger network of computers connected through a periodic dial-up connection. Users could connect in to your BBS by dialing up to it and for instance leave a message or make a move on a strategy game. During night your BBS would be contacted by the network (a common one at the time was FidoNet) and new messages would be dropped off at your BBS and messages left at your site would be picked up and carried onwards to other sites.
Sample of BBS screen
Basic and slow? Yes absolutely. But we were connected once again. The need to share information and thoughts with other like-minded individuals without having to be in direct physical contact was re-established. The future looked bright and this was just the beginning.
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