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The history of the computer based Bulletin Board System can be traced back to Chicago, IL in 1978 to Ward Christensen, who wrote the first BBS system software.

Texfiles BBS Timeline 1978

Snowed in during the Great Chicago Snowstorm of (January) 1978, Ward Christensen begins preliminary work on what would eventually become CBBS (Computer Bulletin Board System), the first Bulletin Board System.

 

First Computer Bulletin Board System

Ward Christensen and Randy Suess develop the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) in Chicago. Opened to the public the following year, it is the first electronic message-posting network.

 

Flak Magazine - Review of BBSes

An article about BBS systems, written in November 2001.

 

History of BBSing

A timeline of the history of BBSing from the Sysops Corner.

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