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

Computer 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

Examples of bulletin board in a Sentence

Our teacher put our pictures up on the bulletin board.

Recent Examples on the Web

Look in your local newspaper or on community bulletin boards online to find highlights of the week and month. —Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024

The presence of my column on locker-room bulletin boards is second only to its presence on bathroom floors. —David Scott, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024

News of New York gang activity was posted on bulletin boards for the cast to absorb. —Laura Haefner, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024

Based in the picturesque French city of Lyon, Interpol serves as a digital bulletin board that helps law enforcement agencies worldwide share information about fugitives and crimes. —Jane Bradley, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024

What Andy Reid taught John Harbaugh Behind Reid’s desk in Philadelphia was a 3x5 index card on a bulletin board. —Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024

Daily bulletin board schedules, after all, are far from binding agreements. —Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024

Two white sheets of paper pinned to a bulletin board offer a reminder: Lost objects worth at least $5,000 have to stay for three years. —Chelsia Rose Marcius Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024

Leaderless resistance fused with computerized bulletin board systems (BBSes) brought the movement unparalleled advantages of both real-time and clandestine connectivity, effectively concealing communications from the prying eyes and attentive ears of federal authorities. —TIME, 5 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

bulletin board

noun

1

: 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