The messaging system that he and a friend created in 1978 was a forerunner of social media services like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. By Cade Metz Randy Suess, a computer hobbyist who helped build ...

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

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 ...

*He was 74. A very typical cultural figure of the personal computer era. Like: I've got one, it's personal, I'll just do it myself. And then: "hey look, everybody," which was the end of that paradigm, ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

The 80s and 90s were the glory days of the BBS. The plain old telephone system was responsible for bringing us connection to other digital beings, along with plenty of spuriously-obtained software and ...

Sue Jones turned on her computer one day recently to find an ugly image: Bart Simpson, cartoon figure and ne'er-do-well, middle finger fully extended. Mrs. Jones and her husband, Art, run a computer ...

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 ...

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.

We received belated word this week of the passage of Ward Christensen, who died unexpectedly back in October at the age of 78. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, that’s understandable, because the man ...