From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: 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 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]:
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
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