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Before Facebook, the Late Ward Christensen Booted Up the First Social Network

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Back in the 70s, if you wanted to be online, you had to be a college student, researcher, or in the military to be on the internet. That was it. Joe or Jane User? Forget about it. Then, during a Chicago blizzard, a young computer scientist, Ward Christensen, and his buddy Randy Suess built the first Bulletin Board System (BBS). This enabled people to dial in via a 300 Bit Per Second (BPS) modem to a computer to share messages. They’d made the fi…

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