History

• BBS Ads: Getting the Word Out

  23 April 2013   Tags: Retro     BBS     History    
  BBS Ads were important to users and sysops of BBS’s. There wasn’t any universal directory like the phone book, and during the heyday of BBS’s (early ’80s to the mid ’90s), most people couldn’t easily access the Internet. Every BBS had a different atmosphere. It...   Read More
  
  

• Book Review: Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age by Mike Hally

  3 June 2009   Tags: Book     Review     History     Retro    
  This is an interesting history of computer development around the world during the 1940s and 50s.  The book grew out of a radio series on BBS Radio 4 and contains lots of original material gained from interviews in 2001 and 2004.  It is very accessible as it focuses slightly more on the...   Read More