early internet

Kudos to Internet Archive: Its 30th anniversary!

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Celebrating Thirty Years of Internet Archive Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive is celebrating its 30th anniversary! This milestone comes alongside many pivotal websites & organizations founded in 1996. To commemorate this occasion, we’ve spent the month opening the internet’s yearbook to celebrate the sites, services & scrappy experiments that helped shape the web as we … 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