CBBS ( Computerized Bulletin Board System ) was a computer software program created by Ward Christensen to allow him and other computer hobbyists to exchange information between one another.

Because the Internet was still small and not available to most computer users, users had to dial CBBS directly using a modem.

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

CBBS went online on February 16, 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.

** The first computer bulletin board system ( CBBS ) is created in Chicago.

Ward Christensen and the CBBS.

Also because the CBBS hardware and software supported only a single modem for most of its existence, users had to take turns accessing the system, each hanging up when done to let someone else have access.

As Christensen and Suess went their separate ways, the CBBS name lived on, and survives to an extent as a web-based forum on Suess ' website, chinet. com.

Christensen's version of CBBS, called " Ward's Board ", closed in the early 1990s.

An article with a photo of Ward and the CBBS hardware appeared shortly thereafter in the Chicago Tribune.

Ward Christensen, born in West Bend, Wisconsin, U. S., is the co-founder of the CBBS bulletin board, the first bulletin board system ( BBS ) ever brought online.

Christensen, along with partner Randy Suess, started development during a blizzard in Chicago, Illinois, and officially established CBBS four weeks later, on February 16, 1978.

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