On Wed, 23 Oct 2024, Mike Katz wrote:
I agree with you but phrased differently. XMODEM is ubiquitous but CBBS
created a
totally new way of sharing information and is the forerunner of everything from
CompuServe to the internet, instant messaging and even social media.
Most people reading an obit would not appreciate the significance of a data
transfer
protocol however the first "social media" type message system they would
understand.
Community Memory (Lee Felsenstein, Ephrem Lipkin, et al) preceded it by
about five years.
BUT, CBBS was the first with dial-up access [from home], rather than
dedicated publicly available terminals.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
