BBS were very much a foundational building block of the internet, yes. As a former Discourse employee I’ve been effectively trying to bring back that bygone era.
But Usenet et.al. predates the world-wide-web by a decade, and In this piece I’m subtly making the case that WWW is when the internet first took material form, becoming visible to the naked eye.
But Usenet et.al. predates the world-wide-web by a decade, and In this piece I’m subtly making the case that WWW is when the internet first took material form, becoming visible to the naked eye.