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Community Memory (CM) was the first public computerized bulletin board system. Established in 1973 in Berkeley, California, it used an SDS 940 timesharing system in San Francisco connected via a 110 baud link to a teleprinter at a record store in Berkeley to let users enter and retrieve messages. Individuals could place messages in the computer and then look through the memory for a specific notice. While initially conceived as an information and resource sharing network linking a variety of counter-cultural economic, educational, and social organizations with each other and the public, Community Memory was soon generalized to be an information flea market,[1] by providing unmediated, two-way access to message databases through public computer terminals.[2] Once the system became available, the users demonstrated that it was a general communications medium that could be used for art, literature, journalism, commerce, and social chatter. Community Memory was created by Lee Felsenstein,

Community Memory - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Public computerized bulletin board system Community Memory terminal at Leopold's Records, Berkeley, CA, 1973 Community Memory ( CM ) was the first public computerized bulletin board system . Established in 1973 in Berkeley, California , it used an SDS 940 timesharing system in San Francisco connected via a 110 baud link to a Teletype Model 33 teleprinter , essentially a computer printer and keyboard (a hard copy terminal that prints both input and output), in Leopold's Records [ 1 ] record store in Berkeley, Cal

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