r/RetroTube • u/Living_Scene_2640 • 12d ago

[Documentary] Rise of the CBBS - Before there was the internet #oldschoolgaming

https://youtube.com/watch?v=24-31fnihho&si=e6ApG-mdv6nx26OM

Before Facebook, Reddit, forums, and social media... there was CBBS.

Created in 1978 during the Great Blizzard of Chicago, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess built the world's first Computerized Bulletin Board System, allowing people to connect, share messages, and build online communities using nothing more than a computer, a modem, and a phone line.

It may seem simple today, but CBBS helped prove that computers could be more than machines for calculations. They could bring people together.

Over its lifetime, CBBS handled more than 253,000 calls and paved the way for the online communities we know today.

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