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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Bulletin Board System | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for Bulletin Board System | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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bulletin board system physical piece of board on which people can pin messages written on paper for general consumption - a "physical bboard"). A computer and associated software which typically provides an electronic message database where people can log in and leave messages. Messages are typically split into {topic groups} similar to the {newsgroups} on {Usenet} (which is like a distributed BBS). Any user may submit or read any message in these public areas. Apart from public message areas, a BBS may provide archives of files, personal {electronic mail} and any other services or activities of interest to the bulletin board's system operator (the "{sysop}"). Thousands of local BBSes are in operation throughout the world, typically run by amateurs for fun out of their homes on {MS-DOS} boxes with a single {modem} line each. Although BBSes have traditionally been the domain of hobbyists, an increasing number of BBSes are connected directly to the {Internet}, and many BBSes are currently operated by government, educational, and research institutions. Fans of {Usenet} and {Internet} or the big commercial {time-sharing} bboards such as {CompuServe}, {CIX} and {GEnie} tend to consider local BBSes the low-rent district of the hacker culture, but they serve a valuable function by knitting together lots of hackers and users in the personal-{micro} world who would otherwise be unable to exchange code at all. Use of this term for a {Usenet} newsgroup generally marks one either as a {newbie} fresh in from the BBS world or as a real old-timer predating {Usenet}. (1998-03-24) | |
