[ih] We can hang up now, it's all done.

[Larry Press]

> * 1978: The first bulletin board system
> This may be technically true but it ignores the real point that in  
> 1973 the Institute for the Future had its FORUM system on ARPANET, and  
> at the same time PLATO Notes came out, the a full-fledged message  
> board system.  PLATO Notes inspired Ray Ozzie (now Chief Software  
> Architect of Microsoft) to create Lotus Notes.


EIES from New Jersey Institute of Technology also existed in the mid 1970s.

Larry