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The phrase "bulletin board system" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a computerized system that allows users to post and read messages, similar to a physical bulletin board. You can use the phrase in any context where you are describing or discussing a computerized messaging system. For example: - "Our company uses a bulletin board system to communicate important announcements and updates to all employees." - "The school's bulletin board system was flooded with messages from students trying to find a study group for the upcoming exam." - "I remember using a bulletin board system in the early days of the internet to connect with other fans of my favorite band."
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bulletin board system
noun
A type of computer system, now largely obsolete, used to exchange messages and data.
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A telling example is the early electronic bulletin board system (BBS), such as the WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link).
Or displaying my email address when I comment on a bulletin board system.
The master NEURON process contains the server for the bulletin board system.
Matchmaker was founded in 1984 as a telephone dating service, evolved into a bulletin board system and went online in 1996.
"Their job is to post articles on the B.B.S. to balance public opinion," Mr. Li said, referring to the Bulletin Board System where many Internet users interact.
Newsgroup, Internet-based discussion group, similar to a bulletin board system (BBS), where people post messages concerning whatever topic around which the group is organized.
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In the early 1980's, through postings on bulletin board systems, pedophiles went online to swap illegal images.
In the very early days of the internet, it was sometimes considered rude to "lurk" – to listen but not participate – on bulletin board systems (BBSs).
E-mail is also available on major public online and bulletin board systems, many of which maintain free or low-cost global communication networks.
Ten years later, Scott founded Textfiles.com, dedicated to preserving mid-1980s text files "and the world as it was then," bulletin board systems and all.
USENET and other discussion forums, such as privately hosted bulletin board systems (BBSs), enabled individuals to interact in an online social network, but each was essentially a closed system.
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