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BBS

BBS (B`B-S') noun
1. Acronym  for bulletin board system. A computer system equipped with one or more modems or other means of internal linknetwork access that serves as an internal linkinformation and message-passing center for remote users. Often BBSs are focused on special interests, such as internal linkscience fiction, movies, Windows software, or Macintosh systems, and can have free or fee-based access, or a combination. Users dial into a BBS with their modems and post messages to other BBS users in special areas devoted to a particular topic, in a manner reminiscent to posting notes on a cork bulletin board. Many BBSs also allow users to chat online with other users, send e-mail, download and upload files that include freeware and shareware software, and access the Internet. Many software and hardware companies run proprietary BBSs for customers that includes sales information, technical support, and software upgrades and patches. Also called bulletin board system.

2. Acronym for be back soon. A shorthand phrase often seen in Internet discussion groups by a participant leaving the group who wishes to bid a temporary farewell to the rest of the group.  

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BBS [Bulletin Board System]- A computer that is set up to act as a system where other people call in using internal linkphone lines to post messages; sometimes software is traded, and usually archives are kept of software on the board. The first board worthy of the name was Ward Christensen and Randy Suess's board in 1978.

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BBS
Electronic Bulletin Board System that  runs on a computer set to respond to  modem internal linkphone calls from other computer  users wishing to exchange messages and  files. In the decade before the internal linkInternet  became a household word, BBSs (often run  from the basement of hobbyists and small  entrepreneurs) defined the horizons of  cyberspace for the average modem dabbler,  with tens of thousands of separate computers around the world reflecting a  similar diversity of interests as is now  found in Usenet newsgroups. Unlike the  Internet, most BBSs were self-contained  islands, incapable of connecting with any  other BBS to forward or receive messages.

This situation began to change in the late  '80s with the advent of shoestring internal linknetworks,  like internal linkFidoNet, in which participating BBSs were programmed to exchange files during  off-peak phone times; though immensely  successful given their modest infrastructure,  such BBS networks have largely been  absorbed into Internet in recent years.

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Back in 1984, i got myself an MPP-300 baud modem that plugged into the joystick port of my Atari 1200XL.  it was a internal linkrush.   to actually trade software over a phone line.  i proceeded to grab as many games and utilities as i could.  before i knew it, in order to accelerate the internal linkprocess, i started my own bulletin board system. it was called internal linkFoundation.  named after the internal linkIsaac Asimov series.  it ran on two Indus GT floppy drives  and a 'happy enhanced' Atari 1050 floppy.  not bad in those days.  these were the days before hard drives were common and 10 megs was gargantuan, and the economic rift was immense between a 1200 baud Hayes modem and a 300 baud schmuck. what i learned from this experience was the idea that communication was really what i was after.  it wasn't about  getting the latest warez or the download/upload ratio.  it was about community.  it was very strange, as a sysop, to get mad at someone because they were downloading games from me and not posting messages to facilitate discussions... i couldn't figure out why messages were more important than warez.  i dumped the computer scene for a few years and came back on to find the internal linkInternet.  now i understand. - @Om* 11/22/99


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