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A bulletin board which combines a pinboard (corkboard) and writing surface is known as a combination bulletin board. Bulletin boards can also be entirely in the digital domain and placed on computer networks so people can leave and erase messages for other people to read and see, as in a bulletin board system. Bulletin boards are particularly ...
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 ...
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
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.
Diversi-Dial (DDial) – Chat-room atmosphere supporting up to 7 incoming lines allowing links to other DDial boards. GBBS – Applesoft and assembler-based BBS program by Greg Schaeffer. GBBS Pro – based on the ACOS or MACOS (modified ACOS) language. Net-Works II – by Nick Naimo. SBBS – Sonic BBS by Patrick Sonnek.
BBCode ("Bulletin Board Code") is a lightweight markup language used to format messages in many Internet forum software. It was first introduced in 1998. [citation needed] The available "tags" of BBCode are usually indicated by square brackets ([and ]) surrounding a keyword, and are parsed before being translated into HTML. [citation needed]