bulletin board
noun
1
: a board for posting notices (as at a school)
2
: a public electronic forum that allows users to post or read messages : message board
… a personal computer, a modem, and a telephone line are all you need to run your own bulletin board …—
John Seabrook
John SeabrookComputer bulletin board services offer up the glories of e-mail, the thought provocation of news-groups, the sharing of ideas implicit in public posting, and the interaction of real-time chats. The fabulous, wonderful, limitless world of communication is just waiting for you to log on.—M. Kadi
M. Kadi
Examples of bulletin board in a Sentence
Our teacher put our pictures up on the bulletin board.
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Her research focused on people with disabilities who connected via digital bulletin boards long before the average person had the same kind of access.
—Curbed, 18 Oct. 2023
Evans’ office and exam rooms contain bulletin boards covered with photos of infants she’s brought into the world.
—Claire Rush and Laura Ungar, Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
One research institute found that a campaign on 4chan, a notorious bulletin board, encouraged the use of a particular slur within hours of his arrival, in what seemed to be a coordinated test of the new owner’s tolerance for offensive speech.
—Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
Soto will have to wait for May 5 for the Padres' first game against the Dodgers, but there's already plenty of bulletin board material to go around to motivate the two teams.
—Scott Boeck, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
The hunch here is that Payton could care less about making the Jets' – or anybody’s – bulletin board.
—Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
Among other things, my column is sometimes a community bulletin board.
—Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 7 May 2023
The notes were found Friday morning at a Juneau supermarket and later in the day on a bulletin board inside the State Office Building, police said.
—Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2023
But as Lincoln Riley and USC prepared to share the stage Saturday with Sanders and Colorado, there were no potshots, no sarcastic slights, no bulletin board material of any kind.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
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Curbed, 18 Oct. 2023
Evans’ office and exam rooms contain bulletin boards covered with photos of infants she’s brought into the world.
—Claire Rush and Laura Ungar, Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
One research institute found that a campaign on 4chan, a notorious bulletin board, encouraged the use of a particular slur within hours of his arrival, in what seemed to be a coordinated test of the new owner’s tolerance for offensive speech.
—Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
Soto will have to wait for May 5 for the Padres' first game against the Dodgers, but there's already plenty of bulletin board material to go around to motivate the two teams.
—Scott Boeck, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
The hunch here is that Payton could care less about making the Jets' – or anybody’s – bulletin board.
—Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
Among other things, my column is sometimes a community bulletin board.
—Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 7 May 2023
The notes were found Friday morning at a Juneau supermarket and later in the day on a bulletin board inside the State Office Building, police said.
—Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2023
But as Lincoln Riley and USC prepared to share the stage Saturday with Sanders and Colorado, there were no potshots, no sarcastic slights, no bulletin board material of any kind.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
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First Known Use
1827, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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bulletin board
noun1
: a board for posting notices (as at a school)
2
: a place on a computer network (as the Internet) where people can leave or read public messages
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