Identity: The Untold Impact of Bulletin Board Systems in the Middle East
Preceding the World Wide Web and its evolution of the internet into what it is today, people built virtual worlds and communities on their computers via bulletin board systems (BBSs). BBSs were run over telephone lines, so users accessed them by dialing up their intended BBS, incurring telephone service charges as a result. Because long-distance telephone
Identity: The 90’s Zoom Room
Today, most of all communication between friends, family, and peers is taken for granted. We can easily send emails and text messages back and forth with others for hours on end. In the early 1980s into the 1990s, a computerized bulletin board system (BBS) was created to send messages to other users and create social
Identity: The Sybercom Bulletin Board System
Personally, I use the internet so often that it is almost considered a necessity for me, especially in terms of communication. Even though many of my friends could be reached through in-person talking, the internet has made communication much easier. However, the internet we know today is so much different compared to about 30 years
Identity: The Cave BBS: The Echoes Continued
Pixel style, retro color scheme, simple interface. You may not know what it is, but you see some familiar words, some familiar ways of operation. You may wonder if it’s a game. Yet the answer is not so straightforward: yes and no. In 1978, during a huge snowstorm, two men sketched out an idea. Later,
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A critical exploration of internet history
This is the blog for the Cultural History of the Internet course at Johns Hopkins University. It features interconnected student projects on internet history and web ephemera.
Categories
• Before the Internet
• Bulletin Board Systems
• Web Design
• Walled Gardens
• Memes
• What the Internet Means Today
• Future Internet
• No One Is Talking about This
• NFTs
• Lost Sites
• Security and Encryption
• Minitel