bulletin board system
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At the time, Morgan said, he was operating a BBS, a bulletin board system that served as a precursor to the World Wide Web and working with his brother-in-law.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2021
Indeed, Dragon Con owes its name in part to a computer: a “Dragon”-brand PC that, in 1987, hosted the original bulletin board system of the local gaming community out of which the convention grew.
From Slate • Sep. 26, 2017
We met on a bulletin board system sometime in the early ’80s, before the Internet was a thing.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2016
It was there that Kim was introduced to a friend’s computer server linked up to a bulletin board system, a primitive online message service.
From Forbes • Mar. 2, 2015
The Hatchery’s site interface was designed to look and operate like an old pre-Internet dial-up bulletin board system, complete with the screech of a 300-baud modem during the log-in sequence.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
