bulletin board system
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释义 | bulletin board system
bulletin board systembulletin board system[′bu̇l·ət·ən ‚bȯrd ‚sis·təm]bulletin board system(communications, application)A computer and associated software which typically provides anelectronic message database where people can log in and leavemessages. Messages are typically split into topic groupssimilar to the newsgroups on Usenet (which is like adistributed BBS). Any user may submit or read any message inthese public areas. The term comes from physical pieces of board on which peoplecan pin messages written on paper for general consumption - a"physical bulletin board". Ward Christensen, the programmerand operator of the first BBS (on-line 1978-02-16) called it aCBBS for "computer bulletin board system". Apart from public message areas, a BBS may provide archives offiles, personal electronic mail and any other services oractivities of interest to the bulletin board's system operator(the "sysop"). Thousands of local BBSes are in operationthroughout the world, typically run by amateurs for fun out oftheir homes on MS-DOS boxes with a single modem line each.Although BBSes have traditionally been the domain ofhobbyists, an increasing number of BBSes are connecteddirectly to the Internet, and many BBSes are currentlyoperated by government, educational, and researchinstitutions. Fans of Usenet and Internet or the bigcommercial time-sharing bboards such as CompuServe, CIXand GEnie tend to consider local BBSes the low-rent districtof the hacker culture, but they serve a valuable function byknitting together lots of hackers and users in thepersonal-micro world who would otherwise be unable toexchange code at all. Use of this term for a Usenet newsgroup generally marks oneeither as a newbie fresh in from the BBS world or as a realold-timer predating Usenet. bulletin board systembulletin board systemA now-dated term for a PC-based meeting and announcement system which allows users to carry on discussions, upload and download files, and make announcements without the users being online at the same time.bulletin board system
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