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Sezam Pro
{{about, a BBS, Sezam, a 1955 book, Stanisław Lem Sezam, the cult Bulletin Board System in former Yugoslavia. Sezam BBS was founded on November 11, 1989 as one of many one phone line / night only Bulletin Board Systems in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Contrary to many BBS systems dedicated to file downloads, Sezam focused on conferences. The original BBS software, specially developed by Sezam's founders Zoran Životić and Dejan Ristanović Dejan Ristanović ( sr-cyr, italic=yes, Дејан Ристановић, Belgrade, 16 April 1963), is a well known Serbs, Serbian writer and computer publicist. In January 1981 he wrote the first article on personal computers for the popular scie ..., enabled users to share their comments on various topics, such as computers, education, sports, politics. Within months, Sezam had several thousand users and evolved into a subscription-based system, using 3 phone lines. During the following years it grew to 6, 8, 10 and finally 15 phone lines. Tens of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulletin Board System
A bulletin board system (BBS), also called computer bulletin board service (CBBS), is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users through public message boards and sometimes via direct chatting. In the early 1980s, message networks such as FidoNet were developed to provide services such as NetMail, which is similar to internet-based email. Many BBSes also offer online games in which users can compete with each other. BBSes with multiple phone lines often provide chat rooms, allowing users to interact with each other. Bulletin board systems were in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web, social networks, and other aspects of the Internet. Low-cost, high-performance asynchronous modems drove the use of online services and BBSes t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija; sk, Juhoslávia; ro, Iugoslavia; cs, Jugoslávie; it, Iugoslavia; tr, Yugoslavya; bg, Югославия, Yugoslaviya ) was a country in Southeast Europe and Central Europe for most of the 20th century. It came into existence after World War I in 1918 under the name of the ''Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes'' by the merger of the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (which was formed from territories of the former Austria-Hungary) with the Kingdom of Serbia, and constituted the first union of the South Slavic people as a sovereign state, following centuries in which the region had been part of the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. Peter I of Serbia was its first sovereign. The kingdom gained international recog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dejan Ristanović
Dejan Ristanović ( sr-cyr, italic=yes, Дејан Ристановић, Belgrade, 16 April 1963), is a well known Serbs, Serbian writer and computer publicist. In January 1981 he wrote the first article on personal computers for the popular science magazine ''Galaksija (magazine), Galaksija'' (Galaxy). During the following years he wrote many articles about programmable calculators and home computers. In December 1983 he wrote a special edition of ''Galaksija'' called "Computers in Your Home" (''Računari u vašoj kući''), the first computer magazine in former Yugoslavia. This issue featured entire schematic diagrams guides on how to build computer Galaksija (computer), Galaksija, created by Voja Antonić. The series of special editions was eventually developed into computer magazine ''Računari'' (Computers). Ristanović was a contributor of ''Računari'' for 11 years. After that, in 1995 Ristanović founded the PC Press publishing company and magazine ''PC'', the first priv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
