Found this interesting article about BBSs' in a Canadian newspaper!
(from The Gazette; February 18, 1984)
reddit / bbs

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YserviusPalacost · 2019-07-29 21:53

Wow, how archaic does THAT sound, eh?

"Another interesting thing about bulletin boards is the way an
assortment of people get to talk to each other."

Anyone under the age of 30 who reads this must be thinking, "surely,
the first capacitors were made from mica and dinosaur bones..."

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LegoMaster2149 · 2019-07-29 22:03

You couldn't be more right. It was such a new and revolutionary thing,
that (I'm guessing) they didn't really have much of a good and
comprehensive explanation of how it worked. Still, it's way better
than not explaining at all!

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9600bps · 2019-08-01 18:01

I tracked this article down on the Google News archive. It's pretty
neat to see the other articles running around it. Breakdancing was
taking Montreal by storm! [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=80QwA
AAAIBAJ&sjid=lKUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3033%2C3397253](https://news.google.com/n
ewspapers?id=80QwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lKUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3033%2C3397253)

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LegoMaster2149 · 2019-08-01 18:07

>Breakdancing was taking Montreal by storm!

If only I could break/rock to the beat...