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A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), [1] is a computer server running software that allowed users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user could perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging ...
A bulletin board which combines a pinboard (corkboard) and writing surface is known as a combination bulletin board. Bulletin boards can also be entirely in the digital domain and placed on computer networks so people can leave and erase messages for other people to read and see, as in a bulletin board system. Bulletin boards are particularly ...
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. Purple Ocean – one of the largest North American Gaming BBS's of in the mid-1980s. Rusty n Edie's BBS – raided by the FBI in 1993 and sued by Playboy in 1997.
Opus-CBCS – first written by Wynn Wagner III. PCBoard. PegaSys. ProBoard BBS – written by Philippe Leybaert (Belgium) QuickBBS – written by Adam Hudson, with assistance by Phil Becker. RBBS-PC. RemoteAccess – written by Andrew Milner. Renegade – written by Cott Lang until 1997. Currently maintained by T.J. McMillen since 2003.
CBBS ("Computerized Bulletin Board System") was a computer program created by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess to allow them and other computer hobbyists to exchange information between each other. [1] [2] [3] In January 1978, Chicago was hit by the Great Blizzard of 1978, which dumped record amounts of snow throughout the Midwest. Among those ...
PTT Bulletin Board System (PTT, Chinese: 批踢踢實業坊; pinyin: Pītītī Shíyè Fāng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Phi-thek-thek Si̍t-gia̍p-hong, telnet://ptt.cc) is the largest terminal-based bulletin board system (BBS) based in Taiwan. [1] It was founded by Yi-Chin Tu and other students from the National Taiwan University in 1995 as Professional ...
Pages in category "Bulletin board systems". The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. Bulletin board system.
In a bulletin board system (BBS), a door is an interface between the BBS software and an external application. [1] The term is also used to refer to the external application, a computer program that runs outside of the main bulletin board program. Sometimes called external programs, doors are the most common way to add games, utilities, and ...