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Title: The Underground Internet of the 1980s

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:19:13 GMT
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3wVhCE4j1c

In the late 1970s and ΓÇÖ80s, people built their own online worlds using home
computers, phone lines, and dial-up modems. These systems were called
Bulletin Board Systems, or BBSs. They werenΓÇÖt designed by corporations or
optimized for growth. They were small, local, and constrained by default.
This video traces the rise, connection, and collapse of BBS culture: from a
Chicago blizzard that accidentally invented the first online community, to a
global grassroots network that supported art scenes, fandoms, activism, and
underground hacking all before the modern internet existed.

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