Earlier this month, more than 8000 Internet newsgroups, or
bulletin boards, received an advertisement from a Florida - based
computer retail company called Atlas Computer Systems, offering 1 - gigabyte hard disc
computer retail company called Atlas
Computer Systems, offering 1 - gigabyte hard disc
Computer Systems, offering 1 - gigabyte hard disc drives.
This includes some of the oldest ones on the internet like Date.com which was started in 1997 and MatchMaker, which could be the oldest
computer dating service since it was first started as a
bulletin board system in 1986 (and in 1996 became a website).
The Microsoft Corp. will give every school in the nation free software that will allow them to set up
computer bulletin boards and electronic - mail
systems, Chairman William H. Gates III announced last week.