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BBS
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Appendix:Variations of "bbs"
English
Pronunciation
en En-us-BBS.ogg GA
Phrase
phr
en Internet slang en be back soon.
Alternative forms
en bbs b.b.s.
Noun
~ es +
en telecommunications Internet en bulletin board system or bulletin board service.
en w:Tim Guest Lester Prototype: The Beginning of Virtual Worlds Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds London Hutchinson 2007 60 https://archive.org/details/secondlives00gues/page/60/mode/1up 9780091796570 Parallel to the emergence of text-based multiplayer games, though, was another kind of virtual community: Bulletin Boards (BBSs). BBSs were modems people could dial up to, connect with, and exchange software and messages with other members of the community. These BBSs, early frontier outposts of our virtual worlds, were John Lester’s first experience of a community outside the physical.
en education en Bachelor of Business Studies.
en computing en BIOS boot sequence.
en computing en BIOS boot specification.
en medicine en Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
en baby brine shrimp.
en Bogart-Bacall syndrome
Alternative forms
en B.B.S. B. B. S.
Derived terms
bulletin board system en BBSer, en BBSing, en BBStro
Bardet-Biedl syndrome en BBSome
Translations
bulletin board system
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 論壇 lùntán, cmn 揭示板 jiēshìbǎn
Esperanto: eo afiŝejo
Finnish: fi purkki
French: fr SBE m (fr Systeme Babillard Electronique m)
German: de Mailbox f
Japanese: ja 掲示板 けいじばん, keijiban
Polish: pl BBS m
Russian: ru электро́нная доска́ объявле́ний f, ru ЭДО f
Xibe: sjo ᠪᡞ ᠪᡞ ᠠᡞᠰ bi bi ais