bulletin board system
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈbʊlɪtɪn bɔrd ˈsɪstəm/
- Archaic
:
sistema de tablón de anuncios
- Many users relied on a bulletin board system to share information and updates in the absence of internet forums.
- bulletin board system (BBS)
- electronic bulletin board system
- computer bulletin board system
Examples
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The electronic bulletin board system of the Society for Creative Anachronism is called "The Rialto," after Venice's picturesque central marketplace.
Academic text (1997) -
In the early 1990s, people used a bulletin board system to exchange messages before the internet became popular.
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Relevant electronic newsletters and a few bulletin board systems are also covered.
Academic text (1995) -
They ran, they ran the Amateur Action Bulletin Board System and they distributed from that.
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It was the graphic interface of a bulletin board system.
Fiction book (1999) -
Although published, the article had not received peer review and was based on an undergraduate research project concerning descriptions of images on adult bulletin board systems in the United States.
Academic text (1997) -
8BBS stands for PDP-8; BBS is a bulletin board system running on a PDP-8 system.
Blog text (21) -
Also, he'll likely be dismissed as a hobbyist, but David Ahl was very influential in bringing personal computing to the masses via "Creative Computing," including source code, which was hard to come by before the bulletin board systems.
Blog text (28) -
PenCycle, run by the Pennsylvania Resources Council (PRC), is one of the oldest, most comprehensive bulletin board systems of its kind in the U.S. Begun in 1990 with a grant from the Ben Franklin Technology Fund, PenCycle initially focused solely on recycling and solid waste management.
Academic text (1995) -
She spent hours browsing different topics on the bulletin board system to connect with other enthusiasts.
Synonyms
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3.6
An online place where people post messages and discuss topics
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8.2
A computer system people use to send messages and share files over a phone line
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3.7
A computer system online that lets people post messages and read shared information
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'bulletin' + 'board' signal a place for posting notices and 'system' signals an organized set of components, so a learner can infer it is an organised setup related to bulletin boards. However, the specific sense of a computer/online message-exchange service (a BBS) is a technical extension and not fully predictable from the parts for an average B1 learner, so the transparency is partial.
Etymology
Bulletin board system comes from the old paper bulletin board, a public board where people pinned short notices or messages. Early computer services worked like that wall: people could post and read messages, so the phrase came to mean a computer 'system' for sharing messages.