When somebody can put an ftp-server/BBS on the Internet for a couple thousand dollars, it will certainly change the network.
Predictor: Rickard, Jack
Prediction, in context:A 1993 article for Communications of the ACM [Association for Computing Machinery] quotes Boardwatch publisher and editor Jack Rickard. The article says:”Jack Rickard, Boardwatch editor and publisher, estimates that there are 53,000 publically-accessible BBS in North America and 92,000 worldwide. This includes 22,000 Fidonet BBS, which have sophisticated store-and-forward communications between them. When asked about the Internet, Rickard says, ‘When somebody can put an ftp-server/BBS on the Internet for a couple thousand dollars, it will certainly change the network.’ It will also be interesting to see how being networked changes the BBS.”
Biography:Jack Rickard, the editor/publisher of Boardwatch Magazine, the magazine of the 1990s home-grown BBS industry, was also co-founder of the Online Networking Exposition and BBS Convention (ONE BBSCON). (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: MOOs/MUDs/B-Boards/Newsgroups
Name of publication: Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
Title, headline, chapter name: The Internet and Interactive Television
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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