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Bulletin board systems were in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web, social network services and other aspects of the Internet.
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Ward Christensen coined the term " Bulletin Board System " as a reference to the traditional cork-and-pin bulletin board often found in entrances of supermarkets, schools, libraries or other public areas where people can post messages, advertisements, or community news.
* 1992: Terry Brownell launches first fully graphical, iconic navigated Bulletin board system online shopping using RoboBOARD / FX.
The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face, maintained since 1947 by the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago.
An online community can take the form of an information system where anyone can post content, such as a Bulletin board system or one where only a restricted number of people can initiate posts, such as Weblogs.
War dialing or wardialing ( the name is derived from the 1983 film WarGames ) is a technique of using a modem to automatically scan a list of telephone numbers, usually dialing every number in a local area code to search for computers, Bulletin board systems and fax machines.
Adams sponsored Brower for membership in the Club later that year, and he was appointed to the editorial board of the Sierra Club Bulletin.
The system competed with other online services like CompuServe and The Source, as well as Bulletin board systems ( single or multiuser ), including gaming systems such as Scepter of Goth and Swords of Chaos.
Prior to the advent of the web, such support had to be done either via an online service or a private Bulletin board system run by the company and accessed over a direct phone line.
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* S. Smale, Differentiable dynamical systems, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 73 ( 1967 ), 747 – 817.
While APCO International's current position states that plain speech communications over public safety radio systems is preferred over the traditional 10-Codes and dispatch signals, an APCO Bulletin of January 1940 lists 17 codes assigned as part of APCO Project 4 ; in 1973, APCO Project 14 provided a core list of codes from 10-1 to 10-39 with " optional " codes above 10-39.
In this ' pre-Internet ' era, savvy users often had mailboxes on their corporate network, online services such as CompuServe or AppleLink, and perhaps a number of Bulletin board systems ( BBSs ) as well.
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