The Austin Arts BBS was developed by Bill Hood of the School of Screenprinting. The BBS was online supplying news to the arts and screenprinting community not only in Austin, Texas where it was based, but to the world in 1993. The small BBS was the first to market to an industry - screenprinting.

Austin Arts BBS was one of the first BBSes to run on Macintosh computers. It was also the first BBS to produce audio for it's visitors, broadcasting news about screenprinting and music in a pre-recorded method in what was the precursor to Internet Radio that we all enjoy today. The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac The Macintosh, or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... Internet radio is a broadcasting service transmitted via the Internet. ...

Eventually, the station was moved to the Internet when broadcasting became more commonplace with services like Live365. Live365 is an Internet radio web site where members can create their own online radio station or listen to other Live365 broadcasters online stations. ...