Submitted by Jason Milgram on Thu, 12/08/2011 - 11:27am
In the early 1970s, programmers at the University of Illinois released PLATO Notes, which allowed bug reports to be tagged with date and user info. Staff could then respond to the report, and the entire exchange was saved together, securely. PLATO Notes evolved into what we now think of as the concept of a message board. PLATO Group Notes expanded the vision, and became a popular platform for secure, real-time communication among members of a group. The introduction of personal computers with MS-DOS drove a need for a more cost-effective, PC-based Notes product.
Read the whole blog post on founder Jason Milgram's informal history of distributed computing.
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