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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The first BBS was in Arlington, MA (If I am wrong, it could be the second). Also, before the Internet was public (I joined the first public service provider) was IRC and that is where troll was defined. Trolls were those trying to find others for some cybersex.
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I'll have to disagree with you on the first BBS. AFAIR, Ward and Randy started the first hobbyist BBS in 1978. The oldest BBS on my collection of BBS lists that I could find that referenced Arlington was David Mitton's CBBS system with a start date of 1980 in Cambridge and moving to Boston in 1982. I was impressed by his low FidoNet node number. As for IRC, that was invented circa 1988. I remember using the Internet well before then. The joys of searching FTP sites for the file you *needed*.
As for the second BBS? The first incarnation of Frog Hollow was up and running in Feb., 1980 and Steve Vinokuroff ran the first system (Vancouver/CBBS) in Vancouver well before I started my system. He was also one of a very few sysops who used MP/M instead of CP/M to allow multiple users.