BBS
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
BBS is an acronym for Bulletin Board System. It is most commonly used when referring to Citadels, but can refer to any message board.
The BBS, from the user's perspective, is segmented into "rooms", each of which is dedicated to a topic. Within each room are a series of posts, marked with date-time stamp, from individual users. The user reads all the posts, posts his/her own reply or message, moves onto the next room, lathers, rinses, repeats. In this manner 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 message board.
The main reason anybody used a BBS was to to play LORD, Tradewars 2002, and download pirated software and porn at 2400 bps.
In netspeak BBS can also mean "Be Back Soon" but only a faggot would actually say BBS IRL. Actually only a faggot would say BBS on teh internet either.
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