Author Topic: Dumb Question 101...What Does The BBS Stand For? (Read 3523 times)

jbrough7 · « **on:** April 25, 2006, 07:39:43 AM »

Is it Bulletin BoardS? I haven't been able to sleep at night worrying about this!

Jim

mike · « **Reply #1 on:** April 25, 2006, 08:14:03 AM »

Bulletin Board System... often referred to as "the Board".

Thats really slang though.

If you wanna see what industry terms are, here is Bandit Alley's software origin site. http://www.phpbb.com/

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What is phpBB?

phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites.

Vlad · « **Reply #2 on:** April 25, 2006, 08:15:01 AM »

Bulletin Board System, the term coined long before the Internet and the World Wide Web, in the days of 300bps acoustic coupler modems and non-graphical interfaces. Some of the bigger ones had as many as several hundred 'nodes' (read: telephone lines with modems on them) so that many people could chat at the same time!

Gopher? Veronica?

PitterB4 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 25, 2006, 02:37:14 PM »

And the winner is Mike by a minute over Vlad!

ArcticEd · « **Reply #4 on:** April 25, 2006, 05:09:53 PM »

......and all this time I thought it meant "Bandit Bull Sh!t".........

Jacknife · « **Reply #5 on:** April 25, 2006, 06:24:44 PM »

so its not "Bandit Bull Shit"!

mike · « **Reply #6 on:** April 25, 2006, 07:35:12 PM »

Bandit Alley Bandit Bull Shit Board !
OVER 18 only, please, and no SPAM allowed!

Vidrazor · « **Reply #7 on:** April 25, 2006, 11:14:03 PM »

Ah, 300 baud modems. There was a time that was all you needed, really, because you were mostly dealing with text, and most files downloaded were under 100k. My first computer was a Commodore 128 with a 300 bipper.

I would go online through a service called QuantumLink, or Q-Link for short. That service would later become PC-Link (for IBM PCs and compatibles), which would finally evolve into AOL.

There was a board coordinator at Q-Link named GEOS Steve, a PR schmuck who would answer your questions about service-related issues in general, and about a GUI front-end in particular for the Commodore called GEOS (Graphic Environment Operating System), a MAC-like interface for the BASIC-driven C-64s & C-128s.

I would later discover that was Steve Case.

LOL!

Ah, the old days, when camaraderie rather than greed drove the computer industry...