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An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. [1] They are an element of social media technologies which take on many different forms including blogs, business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, products/services review, social bookmarking, social gaming, social ...
Monochrome BBS – BBS based in the UK, founded in 1990 and still running 2023; OSUNY – legendary old-school hack/phreak BBS from the 1980s; pcmicro; Plover-NET – early hacker BBS, origins of hacker group Legion of Doom; PTT Bulletin Board System – largest BBS in Taiwan, still the most popular online forum in 2018
A welcome screen for the Free-net bulletin board, from 1994. A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), [1] is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program.
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The front page of textfiles.com in 2004. textfiles.com is a website dedicated to preserving the digital documents that contain the history of the bulletin board system (BBS) world and various subcultures, [1] and thus providing "a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange allowed them". [2]
Reddit Premium (formerly Reddit Gold) is a premium membership that allows users to view the site ad-free. [116] Until 2023, subscribers could also use coins to award posts or comments they valued, generally due to humorous or high-quality content. [ 117 ]
Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects and is the precursor to the Internet forums that have become widely used. Discussions are threaded , as with web forums and BBSes, though posts are stored on the server sequentially.
Threaded forums are most commonly used for discussions where individual messages tend to be short, such as on social news sites (e.g. Slashdot or reddit), or in commenting systems like Disqus. User-selectable themes