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PC communication
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English
Etymology
en ko PC통신.
Noun
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en South Korea Nationwide computer networks that preceded the World Wide Web/Internet, with telnet-based dial-up connections and bulletin board messaging systems.
en 1999 Korea Trade & Investment Financial cyber trading in Korea has been increasing steadily in the areas of stock trading and banking via telephone networks, modem-based PC communication and the Internet.
en 2013-07-04 James B. Lewis; Amadu Sesay Korea and Globalization: Politics, Economics and Culture Routledge 9781136859786 22 Images and information acquired from the Internet are distributed throughout Korean PC communication systems.
en 2016-09-13 Hyunjoon Shin; Seung-Ah Lee Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music Routledge 9781317645733 In Korea, even before the high-speed world wide web became common, there were a lot of virtual communities online because of telnet-based PC communication technology.
en It wasn’t actually the ’90s but the early 2000s, for me. At that time, we weren’t connected via the web yet, but instead via a sort of Bulletin Board System that was called “PC communication” here. My World Wobbled and Changed: An Interview with Soyeon Jeong w:Clarkesworld Magazine 2019 June Gord Sellar https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_06_19/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260209215706/https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_06_19/ 9 February 2026
Translations
pre-Internet networks
Japanese: ja パソコン通信 pasokon tsūshin
Korean: ko PC통신, ko 피씨통신
en Recreation