Posts Tagged ‘BBS’

1988 – Ignatius T. Foobar launches one of the more interesting and long-lasting Bulletin board systems in the Uncensored BBS. Of course, his name was really Art Cancro, but Ignatius used an Altos 586 running Citadel/UX software. This BBS is still running to this day, even though dial-up access has been discontinued since 2001.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Richard D Kenadek is sentenced in the Davy Jones Locker BBS case
• Gene Roddenberry’s ashes are launched into space
• Google releases Android 1.1

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Events in Technology

• IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) a.k.a “the Poppa” is dedicated
• Microwave Oven is patented
• Gary McKinnon won right to judicial review

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1993 – The Ionizer – Otherwise known as Michael Elanky, recieved 28 months in prison for posting bomb-making instructions on his BBS. There have been other instances of this throughout history, but Elansky was a member of the International Information Retrieval Guild, a computer group very much concerned with freedom of speech and freedom of information. Like the group with which he was affiliated, Michael felt strongly about our First Amendment rights.Therefore, he posted on his BBS – called the Warehouse – instructions on making bombs.

Michael was arrested back in July 1993 and couldn’t post the $500,000 bail. Therefore he spent 4 months in jail. The instructions were originally written by “Deth Vegetable”.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Micropolis files for bankruptcy
• Wildcat BBS sold to Snatronics Software
• Guns N Roses announce their album will be on MySpace 1 week before release

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Reuters has a slide show on the evolution of the laptop. It’s fascinating.

Start here.

I remember the first laptops I used. I was on a campaign to convince my boss to buy me a laptop because I was traveling frequently and wanted to be able to call my local BBS’s from the road.

The IS department had a couple of laptops to lend out for business travel. They had DOS 3.1 or 5.0, modems, DisplayWrite3, and a few other programs on them.

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2008 -Real launches a new program that will allow you to put your DVDs and other format movies onto the hard drive. It instantly became a hotbed of controversy as the software raised the question: can you legally copy the data to another media? The battle started in court and at this current point, RealDVD is on an injunction of sales.

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Other items in the Day in Tech History:

• Realtime updates of VDNS
• RIAA sues 261 including Brianna LaHara, a 13 yo girl
• Richard Kenadek pleads not guilty on Davy Jones Locker BBS

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I have recently–maybe three months ago–joined Facebook. A friend of mine asked me to do so because of some interests we share. I find myself enjoying it more than I expected to.

That’s why I found this article in the Guardian about the future of Facebook interesting. Apparently, the younger set in the U. K. already think that Facebook is old-fashioned. From the article:

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