I agree that the BBS scene was important, and should be remembered, as I was a BBS user in the 1980s. But the fact is the history of BBSes is not the history of

I agree that the BBS scene was important, and should be remembered, as I was a BBS user in the 1980s. But the fact is the history of BBSes is not the history of the Internet. Yes, there were multiple online systems -- the Arpanet, BBSes, Compuserve, PLATO, Prodigy, etc. But for better or worse, the Arpanet, or at least its descendant the Internet, is the one that won.