It's a sad week if you've ever posted on a social network or an internet forum. Randy Suess, the creator of the software for first online public bulletin board, died on December 10th at the age of 74.

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It's a sad week if you've ever posted on a social network or an internet forum. Randy Suess, the creator of the software for first online public bulletin board, died on December 10th at the age of 74.

When you think about how to communicate on today’s internet, places like Reddit and online forums are key. Unlike social media, which is more free-for-all, online forums allow a closed-loop ...

Christensen and Suess dubbed the system “Ward and Randy’s Computerized Bulletin Board System,” or CBBS. It was, as the name suggested, an electronic version of the community bulletin boards that you ...

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Christensen co-developed the world's very first computer bulletin board system, and also created the popular XMODEM file transfer protocol. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...