What Is a Bulletin Board System?

A bulletin board system is a piece of soft ware ing on a computer that's connected to a telephone. By the late 19 eighties, theyhad expanded to include most of the kinds of services that we associate with the early internet. So bolting board systems are in some ways a forerunner of some of the commercial services that you're describing. But they also run in parallel with it. And so whereas my book focus is principally on north America, for reason that i'll explain it t this is a global phenomenon.