Did you ever use a BBS? Long before online forums and communities like Reddit and Discord, people connected through bulletin board systems (BBSs). During their heyday in the 1980s and '90s, millions of people dialed their modems into more than 100,000 BBSs.

Join us to hear Kevin Driscoll, author of the award-winning book The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media, and technology and society expert danah boyd discuss the innovative world of BBSs and how they shaped the ongoing evolution of social media and the internet.