Noun
CBBS (plural CBBSes)
Initialism of computer bulletin board system.
The first BBSes Ward Christensen holds an expansion card from the original CBBS S-100 host machine. Source: Internet
CBBS officially went online on 16 February 1978. Source: Internet
Internal modems like the ones used by CBBS and similar early systems were usable, but generally expensive due to the manufacturer having to make a different modem for every computer platform they wanted to target. Source: Internet
The first BBSes used homebrew software, CBBS Chicago (which Ward Christensen programmed) was about 20,000 lines of 8080 assembler. Source: Internet