FYI February 16, 2018

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On This Day

1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
A bulletin board system or BBS 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 email, public message boards, and sometimes via direct chatting. Many BBSes also offer on-line games in which users can compete with each other, and 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 modems drove the use of online services and BBSes through the early 1990s. Infoworld estimated that there were 60,000 BBSes serving 17 million users in the United States alone in 1994, a collective market much larger than major online services such as CompuServe.

The introduction of inexpensive dial-up internet service and the Mosaic web browser offered ease of use and global access that BBS and online systems did not provide, and led to a rapid crash in the market starting in 1994. Over the next year, many of the leading BBS software providers went bankrupt and tens of thousands of BBSes disappeared. Today, BBSing survives largely as a nostalgic hobby in most parts of the world, but it is still an extremely popular form of communication for Taiwanese youth (see PTT Bulletin Board System) and in China.[1] Most BBSes are now accessible over Telnet and typically offer free email accounts, FTP services, IRC and all of the protocols commonly used on the Internet. Some offer access through packet switched networks or packet radio connections.

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Born On This Day

1920 – Anna Mae Hays, American general (d. 2018)
Anna Mae Violet McCabe Hays (February 16, 1920 – January 7, 2018) was an American military officer who served as the 13th chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. She was the first woman in the U.S. Armed Forces to be promoted to a General Officer rank; in 1970, she was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General.[2]

Early life
Hays was born in 1920 in Buffalo, New York as the middle of three children in the family.[3][2] Her father’s name was Daniel Joseph McCabe II (1881–1939),[4][5] who was from Ballymurphy, County Carlow, Ireland,[4] while her mother’s name was Mattie Florence Humphrey (1885–1961),[4][6][7] who was of Welsh descent;[8] both her parents were members of The Salvation Army.[2] During Hays’ childhood the family moved several times in the western New York and eastern Pennsylvania areas, but settled in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in 1932.[2][9] She had an elder brother, Daniel Joseph and a younger sister, Katherine Evangeline.[4][7] Hays attended Allentown High School, now William Allen High School, graduating with honours in 1938.[10][11] Hays had a love of music, playing the piano, the organ and the French horn, and wanted to go to Juilliard School to study music but due to a lack of funds for tuition she decided to pursue nursing instead.[2]

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By Kristen Lee: This Is The Most Disastrous Attempt At Road Rage I’ve Ever Seen
 
 
 
 
Alaska Highway News: Free Wi-Fi for truckers and motorists in the North
It says free Wi-Fi has been installed at 24 inspection stations across B.C.

In the Northeast, that includes stations at 13350 Highway 2 in Dawson Creek, 9011 Alaska Highway North at Charlie Lake, and 2809 Alaska Highway North in Fort Nelson.

“The Wi-Fi-enabled inspection stations will allow commercial drivers to check DriveBC for highway delays or closures affecting their route, obtain transport permits for future trips, and stay connected to friends, family and colleagues back home,” the ministry said in an announcement.
 
 
 
 
By Colin Marshall: Joan Didion Creates a Handwritten List of the 19 Books That Changed Her Life
 
 
 
 
By Alana Semuels: Why Amazon Pays Some of Its Workers to Quit
On Monday, Amazon reportedly began a series of rare layoffs at its headquarters in Seattle, cutting several hundred corporate employees. But this week, something quite different is happening at the company’s warehouses and customer-service centers across the country: Amazon will politely ask its “associates”—full-time and part-time hourly employees—if they’d prefer to quit. And if they do, Amazon will pay them as much as $5,000 for walking out the door.
 
 
 
 
The Ginger Nomad: A short drone series of my travels around the world
 
 
 
 
BBC News: Wildlife Photographer of the Year – People’s Choice
 
 
 
 
By Alan Taylor: Winners of the 2018 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest
 
 
 
 
By Karen Rosen: 5-Time Olympian Kelly Clark Looks Back On Her Career And Influence On The Next Generation Of Snowboarders
 
 
 
 
By Myke Cole: When you make a mistake you have to own it
 
 
 
 
By Gary Price: Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition Releases New Fiber Cost Estimate and a Strategy to Connect Rural Communities
 
 
 
 
By Morgan Gstalter: Student arrested after grandmother finds journal detailing massacre plans: reports
 
 
 
 
By Abbie M Hometalk Team Brooklyn, NY: 11 Brilliant Ways to Organize With Cooling Racks
 
 
 
 
By Michael Ballaban: Here’s How You Test An Unsinkable Boat
 
 
 
 
By Brian Kahn: Take an Exhilarating Trip on the Back of a Minke Whale
 
 
 
 
By Dan Colman: Animation Brings to Life “Man as Industrial Palace,” the 1926 Lithograph Depicting the Human Body as a Modern Factory

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