Why? It's history from a time when most people did not have access to the Internet (when there were no commercial ISP's, no fiber or cable to the home that carried digital signals), and BBS's were the only way you communicated electronically with groups of people via a mostly text-based computer...
Why? It's history from a time when most people did not have access to the Internet (when there were no commercial ISP's, no fiber or cable to the home that carried digital signals), and BBS's were the only way you communicated electronically with groups of people via a mostly text-based computer...