Early Days of BBS: 1980s Beginnings

Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) started as an innovative way for individuals to communicate using modems over telephone lines, enabling a single user at a time to dial into another computer. These early systems, which originated in the late 1970s and gained popularity throughout the 1980s, allowed users to post messages, share files, and even play text-based games. Unlike the internet as we know it today, BBS networks required a direct dial-in connection to a host computer running the BBS software, and the experience was predominantly text-based. Read more …