Given that the genesis of this list was in the Bangalore BBS scene, I thought this item might be of interest.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/randy-suess-inventor-of-first-online-bulletin-board-dies/ar-BBYebhh Randy Suess, a computer hobbyist who helped build the first online bulletin board, anticipating the rise of the internet, messaging apps and social media, died on Dec. 10 at a hospital in Chicago. He was 74. His death was confirmed by his daughter Karrie. In late January 1978, Mr. Suess (rhymes with “loose”) was part of an early home computer club called the Chicago Area Computer Hobbyists’ Exchange, or CACHE. He and another club member, an IBM...
