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   D. Schmudde (schmudde@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 20:36:50 JST D. Schmudde

   The Chicagoland legend who invented the BBS has passed. Plenty of late nights dialing into Zeller Zone or Bear Whiz listening to Wax Trax! records pressed in the Windy City. I was always an Illinois Boy. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/

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     Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 20:36:50 JST Jack Rusher

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     @schmudde All respect to him, but I don’t like seeing this BBS claim repeated. Five years earlier (1973) a group of Bay Area radicals created the first BBS in a Berkeley record store:

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory