bash/bbs/config/about

   1 Hello
   2 Welcome to my BBS.
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   5 Bulletin board system
   6 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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   8 A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and login to the system using a terminal program. Originally BBSes were accessed only over a phone
   9 line using a modem, but by the early 1990s some BBSes allowed access via a Telnet or packet radio connection.
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  11 Once a user logged in, they could perform functions such as downloading or uploading software and data, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. Many BBSes also offered on-line games, in
  12 which users could compete with each other, and BBSes with multiple phone lines often offered chat rooms, allowing users to meet each other.
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  14 During their heyday from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s, most BBSes were run as a hobby free of charge by the system operator (or "sysop"), while other BBSes charged their users a subscription fee for
  15 access, or were operated by a business as a means of supporting their customers. Bulletin Board Systems were in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web and other aspects of the
  16 Internet.
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  18 Early BBSes were often a local phenomenon, as one had to dial into a BBS with a phone line and would have to pay additional long distance charges for a BBS out of the local area. Thus, many users of a
  19 given BBS usually lived in the same area, and activities such as BBS Meets or Get Togethers, where everyone from the board would gather and meet face to face, were common.
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  21 As the use of the Internet became more widespread in the mid to late 1990s, traditional BBSes rapidly faded in popularity. Today, Internet forums occupy much of the same social and technological space
  22 as BBSes did. Today the term BBS is often used to refer to any online forum or message board.