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unusual facts about bulletin board



Luach.com

Luach.com is a Jewish community online bulletin board, sometimes referred to as the "Jewish Craigslist" in which members of the Jewish communities of more than 40 North American cities, or in Europe or Israel can post ads for real estate, jobs, cars, or other common classifieds.

Zeran v. America Online, Inc.

On April 25, 1995, six days after the Oklahoma City bombing, a message was anonymously posted on America Online’s (AOL) "Michigan Military Movement" bulletin board advertising items with slogans glorifying the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.


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Adam Internet

In 1989 it transformed into a commercial multi-line TBBS-based bulletin board, which, at the time, was the largest bulletin board system in the southern hemisphere, and for many years was the most popular in Australia.

BDWM

BDWM BBS, a bulletin board run by Peking University in China

BDWM BBS

BDWM (Simplified Chinese: 北大未名; pinyin: běidà wèimíng;) BBS is the official BBS of Peking University, and it's one of the most popular bulletin board system sites among the universities in China.

Community Memory

The record store and its bulletin board brought together drummers seeking fusion guitarists, bagel aficionados looking for sources, and the first poets of the medium, notably one who went by the nom de plume of Benway - the first net personality.

ESoft

eSoft was founded by Philip L. Becker in 1984 and started out making and selling the TBBS (bulletin board system) initially targeted at RadioShack TRS-80 CP/M machines, but later ported to IBM-PC computers.

Fictionmania

By the mid 1990s, the bulletin board had largely been usurped by the newsgroup alt.sex.stories.tg (see alt.sex.stories).

Fishingkaki

John Hooi then started funding the site himself and officially registered the domain name Fishingkaki.com and with the help of his friend Viper of Console City, began FishingKaki with a forum based on the PHP Bulletin Board system.

Government Medical College, Thrissur

TMCAA have also provided teaching materials, audio visual equipment, furnitures, computers, academic bulletin board, surgical instruments, instruments for pre-clinical medical training, high quality Histology teaching slides, medical journals and books, TVs, chairs, scanners and printers & LCD projectors to various departments.

Green Feather Movement

It began on March 1, 1954 with five college students at Indiana University who surreptitiously tacked a green feather to every bulletin board on campus.

SMTH

SMTH BBS, an influential bulletin board system in China hosted by Tsinghua University

TBBS

The Bread Board System, a DOS based commercial bulletin board system, or

UBB.classic

UBB.classic (formerly Ultimate Bulletin Board or UBB) was an Internet forum software package originally written by Ted O'Neill of Social Strata, Inc. in 1996.