Original title: the inventor of Internet BBS, the ancestor of social network, died at the age of 74
According to foreign media reports, Randy & middot; Randy suess recently died at the age of 74 in a hospital in Chicago. He and ward Christensen established the computer bulletin board system (CBBs) in 1978. At that time, people could connect with their own computers and telephone lines and exchange information about meetings, new ideas and new projects on CBBs.
Randy & middot; Susi was born in Skokie, Illinois, on January 27, 1945. His father Milland was a police officer in Lincolnwood nearby, and his mother was a nurse. After two years in the Navy and graduating from the University of Illinois at Chicago, he worked for IBM and zenith. In the summer of 1975, he joined the Chicago area computer enthusiast Exchange Association and developed their computer bulletin board system with IBM engineer ward Christensen with a personal computer called S-100.
In the 1980s, when they stopped the BBS system, its single telephone line had connected more than 500000 phones. Later, Susi established a larger BBS system called 'Chinet' (short for Chicago network), which is connected to the Internet through satellite signals. At present, a version of CBBs is still running on computers, and anyone can access it through laptops or smartphones. The news of Randy & middot; Susi's death is also announced on the bulletin board above.