BBS
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editBBS (countable and uncountable, plural BBSes or BBSs)
- (telecommunications, Internet) Initialism of bulletin board system or bulletin board service.
- 2007, Tim Guest, “Lester Prototype: The Beginning of Virtual Worlds”, in Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 60:
- 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.
- (education) Abbreviation of Bachelor of Business Studies.
- (computing) Initialism of BIOS boot sequence.
- (computing) Initialism of BIOS boot specification.
- (medicine) Initialism of Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
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edit- (Bardet-Biedl syndrome): BBSome