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bbs.md

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 { There's some documentary on BBS that's upposed to give you an insight into this shit, called literally *BBS: The documentary*. It's about 5 hours long tho. ~drummyfish }
 
+{ According to http://textfiles.com/law/ethics.txt it seems like at least part of the BBS community frowned upon anonymity, the file advises to not use handles (at least in some situations), to properly describe one's place on connection and to restrain from private message unless absolutely necessary. And of course, no one probably even considered any encrypted connection back then. This is pretty nice, it's additional evidence for the privacy hysteria really being a new thing we could do without. ~drummyfish }
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 The first BBS was CBBS (computerized bulletin board system) created by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess in 1978 during a blizzard storm -- it was pretty primitive, e.g. it only allowed one user to be connected at the time. The ideas evolved from those of [time sharing](time_sharing.md) computers such as those running [Unix](unix.md), BBS just tried to make them more "user friendly" and so bring in more public to where there were mostly just professionals before, kind of an ancient [Facebook](facebook.md)-like mini revolution. After publication of their invention, BBSes became quite popular and the number of them grew to many thousands -- later there was even a magazine solely focused on BBSes (*BBS Magazine*). BBSes would later group into larger networks that allowed e.g. interchange of mail. The biggest such network was [FidoNet](fidonet.md) which at its peak hosted about 35000 nodes.
 
 { Found some list of BBSes at http://www.synchro.net/sbbslist.html. ~drummyfish }