The Birth of the Online Forum (PCGH-Retro January 16)
The internet forum was born – that happened on January 16th. Every day, PC Games Hardware takes a look back at the young but eventful history of the computer.
…1978: Snowed in in Chicago, software developer Ward Christensen finds time on January 16, 1978 to start work on a long-planned project: the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS for short. The system allows for the exchange of digital messages and open discussion via a server, which users dial into via a telephone line – the Internet in its later form did not exist at this time and these “mailboxes” are the simplest possibility of electronic communication Ways to communicate with multiple people at the same time. Just one month later, on February 16th, the CBBS was set up – and the first online forum was born.
…1986: On January 16, 1986, 21 Internet experts met for the first time in San Diego, California, to discuss the further development of the TCP/IP protocol: It was the beginning of the Internet Engineering Task Force, IETF for short. The organization, which has grown to more than a thousand voluntary members over the years, meets several times a year from now on and takes care of the further development of important Internet standards.
Further information
• The Internet awakens – TCP/IP becomes the standard (PCGH Retro)
• Birth of the Internet
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