BBS, a Bulletin Board system is an old system or so called place that enable computer users to share ideas, knowledge and more. In other words we can say that it is a cyberspace which is in fact a virtual environment. But in that period they were generally closed system which means that they were not connected to the internet. BBS was one of the first systems that associated with the idea of virtual community as people who were BBS users were sharing and communicating via this system. Like most forms of computer networking a BBS consists of a host computer which run software to operate BBS, the other users were connected to this host computer dialling in through a modem and the host computer serves them. We can say that BBS was precursors of the World Wide Web social network like twitter, my space… Through the way BBS is used people learned about this big phenomenon of being online.
The thing is that it was mainly a local phenomenon as you had to pay an extra for long distance communication. Early BBS users were accessed only over a phone line using a modem. When the web became more widespread, around 1993 BBS faded in popularity as new virtual community were created.
References:
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Bre-Cap/Bulletin-Board-Systems-BBS.html
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/what/index.html
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