DISBoards is a set of online bulletin boards launched in 1997 by fans seeking insights from previous visitors to the various Disney parks.

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Pinterest is basically a big online bulletin board, not unlike a real life collage corkboard with its ripped out magazine editorials and little scrapbook mementos.

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Patients have been online since the bulletin board days, before social media even had a name.

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Xinhua compiles these into another laboriously titled bulletin, Proofs of Domestic Trends (A Digest of Online Public Sentiment).

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As Davidson's partner Mark Sauter points out, APB Online (derived from the classic police acronym "all-points bulletin") may be the world's only news organization with a reporter assigned full-time to the missing persons beat.

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