4 definitions found
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bbs
n : (computer science) a computer that is running software that
allows users to leave messages and access information of
general interest [syn: {bulletin board system}, {bulletin
board}, {electronic bulletin board}]
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
BBS /B-B-S/ n. [common; abbreviation, `Bulletin Board System']
An electronic bulletin board system; that is a message database where
people can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped
(typically) into {topic group}s. The term was especially applied to
the thousands of local BBS systems that operated during the pre-Internet
microcomputer era of roughly 1980 to 1995, typically run by amateurs for
fun out of their homes on MS-DOS boxes with a single modem line each
Fans of Usenet and Internet or the big commercial timesharing bboards
such as CompuServe and GEnie tended to consider local BBSes the low-rent
district of the hacker culture, but they served a valuable function
by knitting together lots of hackers and users in the personal-micro
world who would otherwise have been unable to exchange code at all
Post-Internet, BBSs are likely to be local newsgroups on an ISP;
efficiency has increased but a certain flavor has been lost. See also
{bboard}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
BBS
{bulletin board system}
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]:
BBS
Bulletin Board System DFUe
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