Bulletin board
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Well-used bulletin board on the Infinite Corridor at MIT, November 2004. |
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Cork is a material oft used in bulletin boards. Square of cork soon to be made into a bulletin board. |
For a list of notice boards used by the Wikipedia project, please see A
bulletin board (or
notice board in British English) is a
place where
people can leave public
messages, for example, to advertise things to buy or sell, announce
events, or provide
information. Bulletin boards are often made of a material such as
cork to facilitate addition and removal of messages or it can be placed on the computer so people can leave and erase messages for other people to read and see.
Bulletin boards are particularly prevalent at
universities. Many sport dozens, if not hundreds or thousands of public bulletin boards, used for everything from advertisements by
extracurricular groups and local shops to official notices.
Dormitory corridors, well-trafficked hallways, lobbies, and freestanding kiosks often have cork boards attached to facilitate the posting of notices. At some universities,
lampposts,
bollards, trees, and walls often become impromptu postering sites in areas where official boards are sparse.
Other meanings of "bulletin board" include:
* Computerised bulletin boards, also known as
bulletin board systems, have been popular for many years. The term is also used to mean an
Internet forum.
* An
album by
The Partridge Family is named
Bulletin Board.
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Bulletin board is the name of one of a basic graphics
widget in the
OSF/Motif software programming framework.
