Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer networks. The people who built and maintained these dial-up bulletin board systems (BBSs) in the 1980s laid the groundwork for millions of others who would bring their lives online in the 1990s and beyond.
@appassionato@bookstodon Wow, gotta read this one. Except I was there the first time (American Tune BBS was me). I should get a copy to show somebody's grandkids, though.
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