BBS
-- (Bulletin Board System)
A computerized
meeting and announcement system that allows people to carry
on discussions, upload and download files, and make announcements
without the people being connected to the computer at the
same time. In the early 1990's there were many thousands
(millions?) of BBS?s around the world, most are very small,
running on a single IBM clone PC with 1 or 2 phone lines.
Some are very large and the line between a BBS and a system
like AOL gets crossed at some point, but it is not clearly
drawn.
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