By Cade Metz Randy Suess, a computer hobbyist ... This month, the bulletin board spread word about Mr. Suess’s death. Cade Metz is a technology correspondent, covering artificial intelligence ...

It’s my old computer, still running my 1990s-era bulletin board system (BBS ... By day, Powell works with another obsolete technology. He works as a COBOL developer—a programming language ...

Within just two weeks, the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) was born. Users would call up a computer at Suess ... basic assumptions about how this technology really works.

VoIP services are almost entirely out of the question, as the digital compression used doesn’t allow computer signals ... overshadowed by modern technology, bulletin boards will remain a ...

Housebound during a 1978 blizzard, he and a friend began devising the first computer ... ideas for new projects. Mr. Christensen saw this as an electronic version of the wall-mounted bulletin ...