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a wall that gossips, but only about staff meetings and lost cats.
means a fixed surface, physical or digital, where notices are posted for a shared audience to read at their own pace.
from from bulletin, a short official statement or news item, itself from italian bulletino meaning a small notice or ticket; boards for pinning them existed in offices, schools, and town squares long before the word bulletinboard fused the two in casual english.
internet ancestorbbs systems in 1978 were literally digital bulletin boards
cork monopolycork became standard because pins hold without splitting the surface
military originearly ones posted troop orders and casualty lists
psychological trickindex cards catch more eyes than full sheets of paper
for instance
ward christensen bbs — chicago, 1978, first computerized bulletin board system
craigslist — born 1995 as a literal email bulletin list for sf events
pinterest — 2010 startup that turned corkboards into infinite scroll
reddit — 2005 forum network still called message boards by old users