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What is BBSing? Prior to the Internet in 1978: The First Computer Bulletin Board System, CBBS, Goes Online Ward Christensen and Randy Suess develop the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) in Chicago. CBBS starts the first online cyberspace community or bulletin board system allowing the general public users of CBBS to post messages online a computer system for others to view there by creating cyberspace. The name of the hobby is called BBSing.

All most all of your urban dictionary terms like l33t, noob, woot, root, phreaker, cracker, hacker and almost everything online today started with the hobby of BBSing.
Woot!
- AOL was a BBS, it came out of the hobby of BBSing
- A online message board is not the hobby of BBSing
- A bulletin board system or BBSing is a computer system running software that allows users to connect to the system
creating a virtual cyberspace
- BBSing was in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web and other aspects of the Internet
- If you don't know what BBSing was your a Noob!
BBSing by KaboomRulz September 10, 2008
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What is BBSing? Prior to the Internet in 1978: The First Computer Bulletin Board System, CBBS, Goes Online Ward Christensen and Randy Suess develop the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) in Chicago. CBBS starts the first online cyberspace community or bulletin board system allowing the general public users of CBBS to post messages online a computer system for others to view there by creating cyberspace. The name of the hobby is called BBSing.

All most all of your urban dictionary terms like l33t, noob, woot, root, phreaker, cracker, hacker and almost everything online today started with the hobby of BBSing.

Woot!
- AOL was a BBS, it came out of the hobby of BBSing
- A online message board is not the hobby of BBSing
- A bulletin board system or BBSing is a computer system running software that allows users to connect to the system
creating a virtual cyberspace
- BBSing was in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web and other aspects of the Internet
- If you don't know what BBSing was your a Noob!

BBSing by Sup?Kaboom September 9, 2008
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home-basing 

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Angel: I haven't been doing shit!

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first basing 

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Uh, Strong Bad, were you just first basing it with that piece of loose leaf?

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I was so drunk last week that I ended up first basing my friend's girl.
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The striver is an interesting phenomenon that is seen across college campuses. In essence, the striver is an over-achiever who comes from a working or middle class family. He may be an immigrant. He may have been a slacker in HS who was "born again" into an academic wunderkind. Or he may just be an over-achiever who is keeping at it.

The striver is willing to sacrifice his social life at the expense of Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude. The striver is the guy who stays at the library long after you are gone. The striver is the guy who takes 30 credits/semester and considers anything below an A/4.0 failure. The striver doesn't work on campus, he is too busy finding ways to pad his resume instead of working retail or workstudy. The striver lets his grades pay his education by applying to ten scholarships a year.

The striver is a future Soros/Fullbright/Rhodes/Gates/Marshall/etc. fellow. The striver lives to study. For the striver, their fun comes from the rewards they expect to receive in return for their diligence. Be it Law School, B-School, academia, or politics. The striver seeks to find the American Dream through academic success.
Anthony was a striver. He transfered from a TTT to an IVY and graduated in 2 years. He studied his ass off and went to Penn Law. He got a Biglaw offer. But lost it all because of an unmoderated mesasgeboard.

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1. Billy hate drafted Chad OchoCinco because he knew Sam had wanted him since he is from Cincinnati. Billy already had plenty of players to fill that position but wanted to make sure Sam didn't get him.

2. Billy hate drafted Peyton Manning because he was the only good quarterback left and he knew Sam had been planning on drafting him.
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