Once revolutionary, ready to rock the world, is Twitter going the way of milk toast and khaki pants on its way to a slow death of mediocrity – a middle of the road marketing tool and online bulletin board?
Bulletin board systems were popular before the web and subsequently online forums, blogging and uploading content to social networks took it's place. In the 1980s in the United States, before widespread use of the Internet, B.B.S.stood for bulletin...
I remember the early days of Windows -- the pre-Web days when bulletin boards would decry the pervasiveness of Windows and how Microsoft would roll it out, bugs and all, and have their users find the problems for them.
Most people turn to the web as a primary information source these days, but there's a lot of great stuff in traditional forums and bulletin board systems—if you know where to look. Other forums abound on the web, either associated with a web site...
Before the web, and before email became commonplace, there were many thriving online communities that used electronic "bulletin board" systems. Usenet (from "Users' Network) began in 1979 as an experiment to integrate many of these bulletin boards...
