A mailbox, English Bulletin Board System (BBS) mentioned (the name mailbox is a Scheinanglizismus), is usually a privately operated computer system, which can be used by telecommunications for communication. The responsible person operator has the status of the Sysop, its field resembles that of an administrator. Each user (user) of the mailbox has its own p.o. box, in which electronic messages for him can be stored and called up by him. Besides there are usually public ranges, often to forums, boards or echoes mentioned (see FORKS), in which can exchange themselves and discuss the user. Usually mailboxes offer beyond that a Download range for files or offer Zusatzleistungen like e.g. On-line plays etc. on.

Usually are mailboxes, up to which actual connectingrepaid of the data line (voice grade channel), free of charge.

Many mailboxes are interlaced among themselves and exchange in regular distance (usually repeated on the day) their data among themselves. In this way user of different mailboxes can communicate fast and economically with one another.

History

With the fast spreading of the first personal computers, above all Apple the II, and the first useful modems developed the privately operated mailboxes starting from approx. 1978/79 particularly in the large cities of the USA. There at that time local calls were free and free long-distance calls could because of short before a become known Design error of the telephone network easily illegaly erschlichen become (so-called Phreaking), which accelerated the spreading of the mailboxes v. A. in the population centres enormously. To Germany, where the personal computers arose somewhat later, 1980 were introduced under post office Minister Kurt Gscheidle (SPD) the clock pulse for local calls. Phreaking was impossible in the differently interconnected German telephone network, and the monopoly of the Federal Post Office prevented useful modems, so that the start of the scene ran many more slowly and did not achieve the American extents.

The world largest private mailbox net, the FidoNet (short Fido) developed 1984 and spread fast world-wide. Short time further mailbox nets developed later like the MausNet, Z-net, T-net, AmNet in Germany, which found however no international spreading. Also political activists develops different mailbox nets; in the German-speaking countries was the largest CL-net. The ecological democratic party used the Fido based Net before their Internet appearance for approx. 1989.

Although the software used by the different nets was to each other incompatible, rapidly interfaces, so-called gateways developed between these nets, with which over the net borders away messages could be sent away.

Center of the 1990er-Jahre reached the number the mailbox user their high point. It becomes estimated on approximately 1.56 million alone in the FidoNet. With the spreading of the Internet increasing since then the user numbers decreased/went back however strongly.

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