Event1980s

Early Usenet and bulletin-board education experiments

Informal and formal use of early networked discussion systems for teaching before the web.

Year
1980s

Many BBSes also offered online games in which users could compete with each other.

Usenet was a discussion board that had similarities to the message networks on earlier BBSs .

In the early 1980s , BBS's were often machines that were only connected to the individual users who dialed in, and were not part of a larger network.

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