bulletin board
noun
1
: a board for posting notices (as at a school)
2
: a public electronic forum that allows users to post or read messages : message board
… a personal computer, a modem, and a telephone line are all you need to run your own bulletin board …
John Seabrook
John SeabrookComputer bulletin board services offer up the glories of e-mail, the thought provocation of news-groups, the sharing of ideas implicit in public posting, and the interaction of real-time chats. The fabulous, wonderful, limitless world of communication is just waiting for you to log on. M. Kadi
M. Kadi
Example Sentences
Our teacher put our pictures up on the bulletin board.
Recent Examples on the Web Crucifixes share wall space with a bulletin board highlighting prominent LGBTQ+ people. Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022 Days after the employee’s death, warehouse management posted a remembrance card, viewed by NBC News, on a company bulletin board and distributed it in an internal note to employees. Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 22 July 2022 Sure, there were a number of neutral ways to avoid any bulletin board material. Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 6 July 2022 Newsom decided to forgo a traditional election-night party, choosing instead to respond to news of his victory on Twitter, the virtual bulletin board of modern politics. Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022 Coronado breathes heavily as his body camera pans over a bulletin board with a colorful collage of student art just two days before the summer break. Peter Nickeas, CNN, 25 July 2022 His Facebook page is widely read as a bulletin board of events in the Catholic and Jesuit world, and his Twitter account has more than three hundred thousand followers. Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022 Most small businesses fail in this area and think of their social media as a bulletin board. Scott Miller, Forbes, 13 May 2022 His opinion about the company's sale, however, has symbolic weight considering his history in creating the service that now has 217 million daily active users worldwide and serves as a public bulletin board for the digital age. Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2022 See More
Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022 Days after the employee’s death, warehouse management posted a remembrance card, viewed by NBC News, on a company bulletin board and distributed it in an internal note to employees. Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 22 July 2022 Sure, there were a number of neutral ways to avoid any bulletin board material. Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 6 July 2022 Newsom decided to forgo a traditional election-night party, choosing instead to respond to news of his victory on Twitter, the virtual bulletin board of modern politics. Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022 Coronado breathes heavily as his body camera pans over a bulletin board with a colorful collage of student art just two days before the summer break. Peter Nickeas, CNN, 25 July 2022 His Facebook page is widely read as a bulletin board of events in the Catholic and Jesuit world, and his Twitter account has more than three hundred thousand followers. Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022 Most small businesses fail in this area and think of their social media as a bulletin board. Scott Miller, Forbes, 13 May 2022 His opinion about the company's sale, however, has symbolic weight considering his history in creating the service that now has 217 million daily active users worldwide and serves as a public bulletin board for the digital age. Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1827, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Kids Definition
bulletin board
noun
: a board for posting bulletins and announcements