An electronic message center. The Bulletin Board System (BBS) allows you to dial in with a modem, review messages left by others, and leave your own message if you want. Bulletin boards are a particularly good place to find free or inexpensive software products. Most bulletin boards serve specific interest groups.
Bulletin Board System is an announcement and meeting system that allows users to upload and download files, make announcements and carry on discussions without the people being connected to the computer at the same time. Bulletin board cgi-scripts often come pre-installed with web hosting packages for easy set-up.
An electronic bulletin board in which a computer server/host used by a group of individuals to share messages, software, or who have a common interest.
The computerised equivalent of a notice board. People can meet or send messages without everyone being connected to the computer at the same time. Bulletin Board Systems have now largely been replaced with forums on the Web.
Members of a BBS can dial into their BBS, mostly to download files, to send email or to join discussion groups. BBS's were the main source of the online community until the breakthrough of the Internet and the WWW.
Online community run on a host computer. Users can post messages on public discussion boards, send and receive email, chat with other users, and upload and download files. BBSs are text-based and often related to the specific interests of their developers.