March 10: Uncensored Bulletin Board System
Submitted by Jeffrey Powers on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 8:30pm
Originally Posted on Author's Blog
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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