BBS

See also: bbs, BBs, and B♭s

English

Phrase

BBS

1. (Internet slang) Initialism of be back soon.

Alternative forms

• bbs, b.b.s.

Noun

BBS (countable and uncountable, plural BBSes or BBSs)

1. (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.

2. (education) Abbreviation of Bachelor of Business Studies.
3. (computing) Initialism of BIOS boot sequence.
4. (computing) Initialism of BIOS boot specification.
5. (medicine) Initialism of Bardet-Biedl syndrome.

Alternative forms

• B.B.S., B. B. S.

Derived terms

• (Bardet-Biedl syndrome): BBSome

Translations

bulletin board system

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 論壇ろんだん／论坛 (zh) (lùntán), 揭示板けいじばん (jiēshìbǎn)

• Esperanto: afiŝejo
• Finnish: purkki (fi)
• French: SBE m (Systeme Babillard Electronique m)
• German: Mailbox (de) f
• Japanese: 掲示板けいじばん (ja) (けいじばん, keijiban)
• Polish: BBS (pl) m
• Russian: электро́нная доска́ объявле́ний f (elektrónnaja doská obʺjavlénij), ЭДО f (EDO)