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• n  a computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest

• bulletin board
• electronic bulletin board
• bbs

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• How to Encrypt Your Email
  Some years ago, an antinuclear activist named Phil Zimmermann created a data encryption program for computers. He designed a key-generation and encryption-and-decryption system called PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, for the bulletin board systems that were the precursors to forums, email and the Web. This algorithmic scrambling of information has played an important part in the growth of the ...
  Dec. 5, 2013 - TechNewsWorld.com