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A BBS or bulletin board system is a computer system that is running BBS software. BBS software can be many items. But mainly these websites will cater for the old time games. But not the type of colourful games that you would expect to play on a Commodore 64, but rather text based games that first arrived onto the scene with the first set of PC's. Allowing for sometimes a virtual world that was discovered and explored on your PC by running through miles and miles of text.

A bulletin board system was an extremely popular phenomenon that predates the popularity of the internet. A bulletin board system is a setup where users using a modem can dial into the system over a phone line, and then exchange messages and files etc. . . The heyday of the BBS was in the late 70s until the mid 1990s, when the internet - and especially the graphical world wide web - become commonly available in average homes.

I think many people will remember the old games that could be played where there was no world to view, but only a DOS screen that had wave after wave of text. These door games were the breakthrough of that time and added many hours to people's time spent on the computers. All around the globe these games were the pinnacle of computer games. These games are now appearing on BBS websites and are as popular as ever.

Before the World Wide Web became as common in people's homes as a carton of milk, the bulletin board systems were incredibly popular. The bbs as it was commonly known, provided an accessible way to meet other people, have discussions and more. Like all fads, bulletin board systems were just one step along the internet evolutionary chain. Because a person had to dial into a bbs with a phone line, and even pay long distance charges for out-of-local-area systems, the bbs soon lost is grasp on the public's interest.

A bulleting board system is a multitude of activities that are available to any web browser. There is software on any bulletin board that allows a user to perform activities such as download software, upload data and even play games and read the news. There is a board list available on every site that will allow for discussions with the other members of the site.