digital communities

in Ljubljana, GRADE project meeting

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I have been in Ljubljana to attend the COST GRADE project meeting. This project is one of the most focused and well-managed COST projects I have participated in. You can find the program at the link above. One of the project’s outputs is an exhibition at the Museum of Computer History here in Ljubljana, Slovenia. … Read more

A video: The Underground Internet of the 1980s

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The history of Bulletin Board Systems offers a powerful counterpoint to today’s centralized platform economy, reminding us that online communities once thrived without surveillance capitalism…   Key Insights by Merlin AI Origins of Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) – The first BBS, CBBS, was created in 1978 by Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss, enabling users to … Read more