An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site.[1] It originated as the modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin board A bulletin board 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, and a technological evolution of the dialup bulletin board system A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users, either through electronic mail.[2][3] From a technological standpoint, forums or boards are web applications In software engineering, a web application is an application that is accessed via a web browser over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is hosted in a browser-controlled environment [citation needed] or coded in a browser-supported language (such as JavaScript, combined with a managing user-generated content User-generated content , also known as consumer-generated media (CGM) or user-created content (UCC), refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by end-users.[3][4]
People participating in an Internet forum may cultivate social bonds and interest groups for a topic may form from the discussions.
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Are they worth the price of admission, or can you learn just as much from strictly online forums ? How much experience have you had with user groups that ...
