RailLinks.com
Title
Rail links : railroad links directory and search engine.
Description
Ray Burns and Steve Grande have been working together and offering online information services since 1982. At that time, they operated a commercial computer time-share service known as "Medcom Information Systems, Inc." Medcom was an offshoot of Midcom Corporation (www.midcom.com), a technical contracting & staffing firm started by Steve Grande and his wife, Barbara Cepinko, in 1979.
In 1990, Medcom began providing dial-up computer services to home users via a Bulletin Board System (BBS) called the "Medcom BBS". In 1992, Medcom created a second BBS system named "The Liberty BBS" that provided information, forums and chat for a broad range of liberty related topics. Liberty grew to be one of the largest Bulletin Board Systems in the United States with thousands of subscribers and hundreds of local dial-up numbers throughout the country. The Liberty BBS was nationally acclaimed by many publications, including being described by Boardwatch Magazine as being one of the largest and best BBS systems in the nation.
In 1993, we obtained the domain name Liberty.com and connected our computer systems to the internet for the first time to allow people throughout the world to access the Liberty BBS via telnet. To this day, we still operate the Liberty.com website. In 1993, the general public was just beginning to discover the existence of the internet and the web. Access to the online community was still mostly through dial-up BBS systems rather than through the internet.
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