the.com/bulletin board
The original social feed, except nobody could rage-quote a thumbtack.
means A board or physical/digital space where public notices, announcements, or messages are posted for a group to see.
from From 'bulletin,' a short official notice or news update, which traces back through French 'bulletin' to Italian 'bulletino,' a diminutive of 'bulla' — the sealed lead or wax disc used to authenticate official documents (the same 'bulla' behind 'papal bull'). So a bulletin was originally a little sealed notice, and a bulletin board simply became the designated spot where such notices — official or otherwise — got pinned up for everyone to read.
- origin
- named for posted bulletins, i.e. official announcements
- cork era
- cork became standard because pins hold without splitting it
- digital heir
- BBS computer systems in the 1970s copied the name directly
- decay rate
- flyers go unread the moment one overlaps another