bulletin board system
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[edit]bulletin board system (plural bulletin board systems)
- (computing, historical) A type of computer system, now largely obsolete, used to exchange messages and data over a telecommunications network.
- Synonyms: BBS, bulletin board, bulletin board service, CBBS
- 1986 April 21, Melissa Calvo, “Managers Say Bulletin Boards Part of Job”, in InfoWorld, volume 8, number 16, →ISSN, page 18:
- As companies increase their use of microcomputer-based bulletin board systems, microcomputer managers are finding themselves saddled with the responsibility of being system operators for the boards.
- 2001, Sanjiv Purba, Architectures for E-Business Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 702:
- Hackers and hacker clubs primarily communicate by means of bulletin board systems. It is estimated that there are about 1,300 underground bulletin boards in the U.S.
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[edit]computer system to exchange messages and data
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