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    A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), was a computer server running software that allowed users to connect...
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    Look up bulletin board or notice board in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bulletin board (pinboard, pin board, noticeboard, or notice board in British...
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  • In a bulletin board system (BBS), a door is an interface between the BBS software and an external application. The term is also used to refer to the external...
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  • This is an incomplete list of notable bulletin board systems: Amateur Action BBS French Connection BBS - famous California dating BBS written by Hal Finney...
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  • 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...
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  • Blaine Victor; Burak, Sara (1996). "4889 Falken". Dial Up!: Gale's Bulletin Board Locator. Gale Research. ISBN 978-0-7876-0364-9. BBS Software: Falken...
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  • Bulletin board system, a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program List of bulletin board systems...
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  • KOM is a type of bulletin board system, with a text-based (as opposed to a menu based) input system. The first was QZ KOM, but soon others imitated the...
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  • TAG is a DOS-based bulletin board system (BBS) computer program, released from 1986 to 2000. TAG was written in Borland Pascal and is free for business...
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    originated from bulletin boards and so-called computer conferencing systems, which are a technological evolution of the dial-up bulletin board system (BBS). From...
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  • Sysop (redirect from System operator)
    (/ˈsɪsɒp/; an abbreviation of system operator) is an administrator of a multi-user computer system, such as a bulletin board system (BBS) or an online service...
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  • Mystic BBS (category Bulletin board system software)
    Mystic BBS is a bulletin board system software program that began in 1995 and was first released to the public in December 1997 for MS-DOS. It has been...
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    teletype, radio, computerized bulletin board systems (CBBS), and the Internet. The earliest known record of the all-points bulletin is when used by United States...
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    dating service. It was founded in 1986 and first operated via a bulletin board system. Members completed a questionnaire that enabled the platform to...
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  • Rusty n Edie's BBS (category Bulletin board systems)
    Rusty n Edie's BBS (Rusty-N-Edie's) was a bulletin board system founded on May 11, 1987 by the two SysOps, Russell & Edwina Hardenburgh, of Boardman,...
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  • C*Base (category Bulletin board system software)
    C*Base is a popular bulletin board system software for the Commodore 64. C*Base was originally programmed by Gunther Birznieks of Bethesda, Maryland....
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    Community Memory (category Bulletin board systems)
    first public computerized bulletin board system. Established in 1973 in Berkeley, California, it used an SDS 940 timesharing system in San Francisco connected...
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  • VBBS is an acronym for Virtual Bulletin Board System. It was a shareware bulletin board system (BBS) for DOS (and later OS/2) that was conceived by Roland...
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  • A real-name system is a system in which users can register an account on a blog, website or bulletin board system using their legal name. Users are required...
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  • Wèimíng Kōngjiān; lit. 'Unnamed Space') was a Chinese-language bulletin board system website. The name "Weiming" may also refer to the Weiming Lake at...
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  • List of BBS software (category Bulletin board system software)
    notable bulletin board system (BBS) software packages. Citadel – originally written for the CP/M operating system, had many forks for different systems under...
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  • RBBS-PC (category Bulletin board system software)
    RBBS-PC (acronym for Remote Bulletin Board System for the Personal Computer) was a freeware, open-source BBS software program. It was written entirely...
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  • ISCABBS (category Bulletin board systems)
    ISCABBS, also known as ISCA, is a bulletin board system ("BBS"), formerly based at the University of Iowa. Dave's own version of Citadel, an early branch...
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  • An anonymous post, is an entry on a textboard, anonymous bulletin board system, or other discussion forums like Internet forum, without a screen name...
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  • Telegard (category Bulletin board system software)
    Telegard is an early bulletin board system (BBS) software program written for IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS and OS/2. Telegard was written...
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  • Event Horizons BBS (category Bulletin board systems)
    Horizons BBS was a popular and perhaps the most financially successful Bulletin Board System (BBS). It was founded in 1983 by Jim Maxey, a self-taught scientist...
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  • December 29, 1987, Lear posted a Statement to ParaNet, an early bulletin board system dedicated to the paranormal, claiming that the US government has...
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  • YTHT (category Bulletin board systems)
    Yi Ta Hu Tu (Chinese: 一塌糊涂BBS; YTHT BBS) is a bulletin board system which was created on September 17, 1999, by student Lepton in Peking University, Beijing...
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    Renegade (BBS) (category Bulletin board system software)
    Renegade is a freeware bulletin board system (BBS) written for IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS that gained popularity among hobbyist BBSes...
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  • BBS: The Documentary (category Bulletin board systems)
    documentary about the subculture born from the creation of the bulletin board system (BBS) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com...
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