Development of WebBBS
-BBS system for World Wide Web
1996 Volume 5 Issue 2 Pages 85-95
Details
1996 Volume 5 Issue 2 Pages 85-95
A BBS (Bulletin Board System) on the WWW (World Wide Web) was developed. The system has been implemented on Sun OS4.1.1, FreeBSD386(98)2.05, Linux 1.2.13 and NextStep Rel3.2j for INTEL Processor. Because the system is based on the httpd-CGI (Common Gateway Interface), Perl and UNIX standard commands, the portability is quite high not only for other UNIX systems but also PC-oriented systems such as Windows95 and WindowsNT. In addition to normal reference and contribution on the BBS, one can search for the past titles by free keywords and link his/her new contribution to a specific contribution. The chain of those linked contributions can be easily followed by a command. One can also attach multimedia information such as images and sounds or links to other sites on his/her contribution. This is the most characteristic feature of this BBS as compared with the NetNews or the ordinal BBSs of PC communications. It is easy to add a new category (classification based on the contents of the contributions) to the BBS. The only software that one needs to use the full functions of this BBS system is a WWW browser.
