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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 allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program.
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; SDF Public Access Unix System - Started in 1987 as an ANIME SIG
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 ...
This is a list of notable bulletin board system (BBS) software packages. [1] Multi-platform. Citadel – originally written for the CP/M operating system, ...
Citadel is the name of a bulletin board system (BBS) computer program, and of the genre of programs it inspired. Citadels were notable for their room-based structure (see below) and relatively heavy emphasis on messages and conversation as opposed to gaming and files.
FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used for communication between bulletin board systems (BBSes). It uses a store-and-forward system to exchange private (email) and public (forum) messages between the BBSes in the network, as well as other files and protocols in some cases.