Bbs

4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bbs
       n : a computer that is running software that allows users to
           leave messages and access information of general interest
           [syn: {bulletin board system}, {bulletin board}, {electronic
           bulletin board}]



From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  BBS
       Bulletin Board System (telecommunication)
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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 {topic group}s. 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 exchange code at all.
     Post-Internet, BBSs are likely to be local newsgroups on an ISP;
     efficiency has increased but a certain flavor has been lost. See also
     {bboard}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  BBS
       
          {bulletin board system}