Community Memory was the first public computerized bulletin board system. Established in 1972 in Berkeley, California, it used an XDS-940 timesharing system in San Francisco connected via a 110 baud link to a teletype at a record store in Berkeley to let users enter and retrieve messages.

External links

• Community Memory history
• Community Memory: A Public Information Network ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society article by Ken Colstad and Efrem Lipkin
• The Origins of Community Memory by Lee Felsenstein
• Remembering Community Memory 2001 story at SF Gate

See also

• Benway - one of the first online personas
• Heroes of the Computer Revolution
• Community informatics

Bulletin board systems | Internet culture | Community networks