Re: What is BBS ?

BBS stands for "Bulliten Board System".  In the early days of
computing, people would use a computer and a modem, and dial
directally into a BBS.  Everything was in pure text, rather than all
of the fancy pictures, animations, etc of the internet.  They came
before usenet, and can be considered an early form of a newsgroup. 
There are still many today, and many of them you can access over the
internet.  Many of them today seem to be more focused twords games
than newsgroups and messages.  It is likey that you already have the
tool to view them.  Copy-and-paste the following links into your
browser to see some examples:
telnet://time.darktech.org
telnet://x-bit.org

comp.bbs.misc is simply a modern newsgroup than was ment to be used to
talk about BBSs.


" #Hai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hi,
> I'm just a novice of computer. I'm using Outlook Express to read message
> from "newsgroup" (OE say that is a news group) like comp.bbs.misc. Is "BBS"
> is an alias of "Newsgroup". If not, what BBS is which tool should we use to
> read BBS ?  (I've already know that BBS is an acronym of Bulleting Board
> System).
> 
> And how about usenet ? Is it another name of BBS ?
> Thanks