A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), is a computer server running software that allows users to connect...
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In a bulletin board system (BBS), a door is an interface between the BBS software and an external application. The term is also used to refer to the external...
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Look up bulletin board or notice board in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bulletin board (pinboard, pin board, noticeboard, or notice board in British...
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Blaine Victor; Burak, Sara (1996). "4889 Falken". Dial Up!: Gale's Bulletin Board Locator. Gale Research. ISBN 978-0-7876-0364-9. BBS Software: Falken...
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This is an incomplete list of notable bulletin board systems: CBBS – the first BBS on record, established 1978 Celco 51 – used by the United States Secret...
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PTT Bulletin Board System (PTT, Chinese: 批踢踢實業坊; pinyin: Pītītī Shíyè Fāng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Phi-thek-thek Si̍t-gia̍p-hong, telnet://ptt.cc) is the largest...
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Virtual Advanced (redirect from Virtual bulletin board system)
VBBS is an acronym for Virtual Bulletin Board System. It was a shareware bulletin board system (BBS) for DOS (and later OS/2) that was conceived by Roland...
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Sysop (redirect from System operator)
(/ˈsɪsɒp/; an abbreviation of system operator) is an administrator of a multi-user computer system, such as a bulletin board system (BBS) or an online service...
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T.A.G. is a DOS-based bulletin board system (BBS) computer program, released from 1986 to 2000. T.A.G. was written in Borland Pascal and is free for business...
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Mystic BBS (category Bulletin board system software)
Mystic BBS is a bulletin board system software program that began in 1995 and was first released to the public in December 1997 for MS-DOS. It has been...
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Rusty n Edie's BBS (category Bulletin board systems)
Rusty n Edie's BBS (Rusty-N-Edie's) was a bulletin board system founded on May 11, 1987 by the two SysOps, Russell & Edwina Hardenburgh, of Boardman,...
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The Bread Board System (TBBS) is a multiline MS-DOS based commercial bulletin board system software package written in 1983 by Philip L. Becker. He originally...
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KOM is a type of bulletin board system, with a text-based (as opposed to a menu based) input system. The first was QZ KOM, but soon others imitated the...
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Bulletin board system, a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program List of bulletin board systems...
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List of BBS software (redirect from List of bulletin board system software)
notable bulletin board system (BBS) software packages. Citadel – originally written for the CP/M operating system, had many forks for different systems under...
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CBBS (redirect from Computerized Bulletin Board System)
CBBS ("Computerized Bulletin Board System") was a computer program created by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess to allow them and other computer hobbyists...
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C*Base (category Bulletin board system software)
C*Base is a popular bulletin board system software for the Commodore 64. C*Base was originally programmed by Gunther Birznieks of Bethesda, Maryland....
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Internet forum (redirect from Computer bulletin board)
originated from bulletin boards and so-called computer conferencing systems, which are a technological evolution of the dial-up bulletin board system (BBS). From...
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YTHT (category Bulletin board systems)
Yi Ta Hu Tu (Chinese: 一塌糊涂BBS; YTHT BBS) is a bulletin board system which was created on September 17, 1999, by student Lepton in Peking University, Beijing...
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SikhNet (section Bulletin board system)
congregation"). The origins of SikhNet can be traced back to a bulletin board system (BBS) created by Guruka Singh, launched in 1983. Harbhajan Kaur...
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Diversi-Dial (redirect from Synergy Teleconferencing System)
was popular during the mid-1980s. It was a specialized type of bulletin board system that allowed all callers to send lines of text to each other in...
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Wèimíng Kōngjiān; lit. 'Unnamed Space') was a Chinese-language bulletin board system website. In 2002, the Chinese government blocked access to the entire...
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file transfer protocol and a co-founder of the CBBS bulletin board, the first bulletin board system (BBS) ever brought online. Ward Leon Christensen was...
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ISCABBS (category Bulletin board systems)
ISCABBS, also known as ISCA, is a computer bulletin board system ("BBS"), formerly based at the University of Iowa. "Daves' own version of Citadel" (DOC)...
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December 29, 1987, Lear posted a Statement to ParaNet, an early bulletin board system dedicated to the paranormal, claiming that the US government has...
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Pyroto Mountain (category Bulletin board system software)
questions. It was originally developed to run as a stand-alone bulletin board system (BBS), later as a BBS door, and more recently as a web application...
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RBBS-PC (category Bulletin board system software)
RBBS-PC (acronym for Remote Bulletin Board System for the Personal Computer) was a freeware, open-source BBS software program. It was written entirely...
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Renegade (BBS) (category Bulletin board system software)
Renegade is a freeware bulletin board system (BBS) written for IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS that gained popularity among hobbyist BBSes...
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Apple II and sold programming services. At 15, he co-founded the bulletin board system Futura, before launching his first company, Crystal Technologies...
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Telegard (category Bulletin board system software)
Telegard is an early bulletin board system (BBS) software program written for IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS and OS/2. Telegard was written...
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