BBS
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
BBS is an acronym for Bulletin Board System. BBSes were what people used before everyone was on the internet
it was a good way to meet and hook up with people from your area.
bbses had msg baes, bulletins, files and games. some had multi-user chatrooms
The message board emulates a "bulletin board", such as roommates in a large house might use to communicate with each other. Entirely text-based (at least in dial-up format), the BBS was the primitive forerunner to the modern thread-based forum message board.
The main reason anybody used a BBS was to to play LORD, Tradewars 2002, and download pirated software and porn before broadband.
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