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First post: A history of online public messaging

• p1mrx 3y ago
  > First post
  • JeremyReimer 3y ago
    Nice.
• xnx 3y ago
  Similar to the "mother of all demos" it's amazing how many contemporary online systems had their roots in PLATO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system))
• nucleative 3y ago
  Seems like there are a lot of BBS nostalgia pieces recently. Times were definitely simpler. I fondly remember my first few experiences after the family PC got it first modem and computing has never been the same since. Surprisingly the author skipped over CompuSERVE, Prodigy, and AOL, all of which had very active messaging forums and early chat systems.
  • JeremyReimer 3y ago
    I did mention AOL, as part of the "Eternal September" of Usenet (so tangentially, but still acknowledging it was there) but yeah, I did skip over some of the others. CompuSERVE was something I thought was really cool at the time, but there was no way my parents would pay those hourly charges for me...
  • Gormo 3y ago
    Not to mention The Source, GEnie, BIX, The Well, and especially Delphi.
    • JeremyReimer 3y ago
      These could each be an article in themselves. :)