Bulletin board system
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A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that
allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program.
Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and
downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging
messages with other users, either through email, public message boards, and
sometimes via direct chatting. Many BBSes also offer on-line games, in which
users can compete with each other, and BBSes with multiple phone lines often
provide chat rooms, allowing users to interact with each other.
Originally BBSes were accessed only over a phone line using a modem, but by
the early 1990s some BBSes allowed access via a Telnet, packet switched
network, or packet radio connection.
Ward Christensen coined the term "Bulletin Board System" as a reference to
the traditional cork-and-pin bulletin board often found in entrances of
supermarkets, schools, libraries or other public areas where people can post
messages, advertisements, or community news. By "computerizing" this method
of communications, the name of the first BBS system was born: CBBS -
Computerized Bulletin Board System. During their heyday from the late 1970s
to the mid-1990s, most BBSes were run as a hobby free of charge by the system
operator (or "SysOp"), while other BBSes charged their users a subscription
fee for access, or were operated by a business as a means of supporting their
customers. Bulletin board systems were in many ways a precursor to the modern
form of the World Wide Web, social network services and other aspects of the
Internet.
As the use of the Internet became more widespread in the mid to late 1990s,
traditional BBSes rapidly faded in popularity. Today, Internet forums occupy
much of the same social and technological space as BBSes did, and the term
BBS is often used to refer to any online forum or message board. Although
BBSing survives only as a niche hobby in most parts of the world, it is still
an extremely popular form of communication for Taiwanese youth (see PTT
Bulletin Board System). Most BBSes are now accessible over telnet and
typically offer free email accounts, FTP services, IRC and all of the
protocols commonly used on the Internet. Some offer access through packet
switched networks, or packet radio connections.
Early BBSes were often a local phenomenon, as one had to dial into a BBS with
a phone line and would have to pay additional long distance charges for a BBS
out of the local calling area. Thus, many users of a given BBS usually lived
in the same area, and activities such as BBS Meets or Get Togethers were
common, where users of the board would gather at a local restaurant, the SysOp
’s home or similar venue and meet face to face.
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