In the early 1990s, an online bulletin board created by students at the University of Iowa was among the Internet’s hottest spots: More than 60,000 users would check in to discuss politics, technology, and whatever else was on their minds. But in an era of chat rooms and list servers, there’s not much room for a communications tool that most Web users consider obsolete. Membership has dwindled to about 3,000 users, but Iowa’s bulletin board soldiers on—as a reminder of a bygone age of the Internet, if nothing else. (The Iowa Daily)
