Club Ibosim: Computer Information that unites

This is without doubt one of the most important centres for fans of the new technologies on the Island. The Club Ibosim was born in 1991 as a BBS. As the years passed by it became more popular, where a good group of people from Eivissa and Sant Antonio met and also visited by people outside the Balearics and abroad, at a time when Internet was not what it is now, when interprovincial and international tariffs were paid if the remote information was to be accessed.

With the extension of Internet, many BBS disappeared, and the groups of people who met around them separated. In the case of Ibosim, this group evolved, it transformed. The BBS disappeared but they stayed together and three years ago they became a non lucrative association of fans and the extension of knowledge and use of computer information. As their home page says, "the idea is to make computer studies not only a relationship between the user and the computer, but rather between users and the computer", sharing experiences and helping each other mutually to enjoy it more.

The group has collaborated in the organisation of the Campus Virtuals that are held in Eivissa (the next one at the end of February which they also participate in) they keep two mailing lists –one open to everyone, created in 1999, and another exclusively for members– and they also have an IRC channel, #club_ibosim on the net of irc.hispano.org.

Pere Marí
pmari@eivissaweb.net

Date of publication: 30/01/2002

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