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@schmudde All respect to him, but I don’t like seeing this BBS claim repeated. Five years earlier (1973) a group of Bay Area radicals created the first BBS in a Berkeley record store:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communit

@jack What a life! Didn't connect Mondo 2000 to St. Jude until right now.

(cc: @computersandblues )

@jack Fair - mainly because the history of technology, science, art, etc... has taught us that the notion of "first" is a pretty silly concept.

But to be silly for a moment, Community Memory was absolutely the first BBS. What was created in Chicagoland was the first of something else in concept and practice... that happened to also be called a BBS.

So we are simply impoverished for words. This isn't like someone claiming that Shiva Ayyadurai invented email.

@jack Speaking of the silly "first" designation, the Plato system in Illinois could conceivably make the BBS claim even before Community Memory.

Thinking out loud, that gives Illinois these "firsts":

- Homebrew BBS
- Mainframe BBS
- Graphics-enabled web browser
- Ebook
- HAL

Illinois is truly in first place among the 50 states when it comes to squandering the fruits of great inventions.