Bulletin boards have been around since (BBSs) since 1978. BBSs have ivolved over the years to what they have become now; boards which can be used by businesses as advertisement of FAQ's also for software updates and advertisements, accesed through the w.w.w, downloading, uploading, and sometimes used for uploading of images and files. Ezboard, sparklit active board or yahoo groups are all examples of speciallist and general purpose discussion forums based on the structure of the more developed BBSs.
Its relativly easy to host a specialist forum using free or commercial software. Newsgroups like BBSs, are an old part of the internet, but still very effective ways of displaying/advertising information and still are used by many people. They can be read using spacialist newsreader programs, but now they are generally used with a standard browser. There are different parts in news groups organised by hierachy, a number of providers, including google, ae currently looking at ways to make groups more accesible to a non-technical audiance.
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