Daryl posted this link originally.
http://www.arrl.org/news/computer-bulletin-board-system-co-inventor-rand y-suess-ex-wb9gpm-sk
Computer Bulletin Board System Co-Inventor Randy Suess, ex-WB9GPM, SK
12/31/2019
The co-inventor of the Computer Bulletin Board System, Randy Suess,
ex-WB9GPM, died on December 10. He was 74. According to his obituary in
The New York Times, Suess and IBM engineer Ward Christensen collaborated
on the system in 1978, during the dial-up era, a year before Compuserve
began offering online consumer service. The computer bulletin board was
a forerunner of today's proliferation of social media outlets.
Suess and Christensen were members of the Chicago Area Computer
Hobbyists' Exchange (CACHE), and the system was initially developed so
that club members could more easily communicate with one another. By the
time the Chicago BBS was retired in the 1980s, it had been accessed more
than 500,000 times.
Thanks to Wes Plouff, AC8JF
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