Web Hosting Guide

Web Hosting Dictionary (Please click on letter to view definitions)

Web Hosting Glossary - B

BBS
(Bulletin Board System) -- A computerized meeting and announcement system that allows people to carry on discussions, upload and download files, and make announcements. The people who belong to this "community" do not need to be connected to the computer running the BBS at the same time. There are thousands of BBS’s around the world and most are very small, running on a single PC with 1 or 2 phone lines.

Return to Hosting Guide