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Bulletin board systems were in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web, social networks, and other aspects of the Internet. Low-cost, high-performance asynchronous modems drove the use of online services and BBSes through the early 1990s.
This is a list of notable bulletin board system (BBS) software packages. [1] Multi-platform. Citadel – originally written for the CP/M operating system, ...
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
Typical Citadel BBS screen. Citadel's primary improvement over previous BBS packages was the introduction of the metaphor of rooms as a way to organize topics. Messages are associated with rooms, to which the user moves in order to participate in discussions; similarly, a room could optionally give access to the underlying file system, permitting the organization of available files in an ...
Modern bulletin board systems often have it disabled altogether [citation needed] or allow only administrators to use it, as allowing it at any normal user level is considered a security risk due to the high rate of XSS vulnerabilities. When HTML is disabled, Bulletin Board Code (BBCode) is the most
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 ported to Microsoft Windows, OS/2, OS X, and Linux (Intel and ARM based systems such as the Raspberry Pi).