… the modern bulletin board was created when the world’s first computerized bulletin board system (CBBS) was created. Developed by Ward Christensen to allow him to exchange information with other computer hobbyists over a MODEM, through a simple MODEM file transfer protocol, later renamed XMODEM.

And while only one user could be connected to the BBS at a time, since the connection was over an old fashioned phone line, it was like nothing that existed before. A user could dial up, share a file, disconnect. Another use could dial up and get it. So could 10 more users. Then some could dial back up and share their updates. When CBBS came online, the internet wasn’t even a twinkle in the minds’ eye of Berners-Lee. ARPANET id not even adopt TCP/IP, which would become the protocol the internet was build on, for another five years.

Today is a historic day in internet history, and one that should not be forgotten.