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In either of senses 1 or 2, the term is usually prefixed by the name

of the intended board (`the Moonlight Casino bboard' or `market

bboard'); however, if the context is clear, the better-read bboards

may be referred to by name alone, as in (at CMU) "Don't post for-sale

ads on general".

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BBS /B-B-S/ n.

[common; abbreviation, `Bulletin Board System'] An electronic bulletin

board system; that is, a message database where people can log in and

leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into

[1194]topic groups. The term was especially applied to the thousands

of local BBS systems that operated during the pre-Internet

microcomputer era of roughly 1980 to 1995, typically run by amateurs

for fun out of their homes on MS-DOS boxes with a single modem line

each. Fans of Usenet and Internet or the big commercial timesharing

bboards such as CompuServe and GEnie tended to consider local BBSes

the low-rent district of the hacker culture, but they served a

valuable function by knitting together lots of hackers and users in

the personal-micro world who would otherwise have been unable to

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