Feb 16 1978

The first computer bulletin board system goes live on an
S-100 motherboard and CP/M, and a Hayes 300 baud modem.
Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss's Computerized Bulletin
Board System still kinda runs to this day, but the Internet has
taken the place that BBS's used to have. And this is why you
have no social life, loser.

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