Amazingly Accurate Tech Predictions
Not really RV related but I just had to post this somewhere.. :@ I just watched an old TV show called "Beachcombers". Since was a Canadian show many may not have heard of it? This particular epis...
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TheBearAK wrote:
late 80's when I ran a local BBS we started hooking our BBS's up through DARPA net through the local university via a phone line modem.
Pretty much the first Forums were created then. This was before HTML came along. Everything was text based. Ah simpler times.
note: BBS = Bulletin Board System. Many BBS's started up in the mid 80's and hung around until Mosaic (first web browser) and what we now see as the forums made them obsolete. Most BBS's were dial in, some had more than one line, but often the smaller ones just had a single line, so only one person at a time could be posting.
In 1984 I bought a 1200 baud modem which came with software and numbers to call on-line services such as Delphi and Compuserve. Both of those sounded expensive so I never called them. I went back to the store where I bought the modem and asked how I could find out about Bulletin Boards that I had heard of. The guy printed out a list with about 10 numbers of local BBSs. Once you connected to one BBS, there were lists you could download of other BBSs so there was no shortage of them to call.
A few years later I served as the Co-Sysop for the IBM employees BBS.
