message board

noun

1. a website or section of a website that is used for public discussion of a specific topic and on which users can submit or read messages.

   You should post your questions on a parenting message board and get support from other parents.

2. an online discussion group that is maintained on such a website.

   To participate in the message board, you must be a registered user.

message board

noun

1. an internet discussion forum

Word History and Origins

Origin of message board¹

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

Its first fine was to online message board 4chan, which it said had not responded to requests for information about measures required to prevent people from accessing illegal content.

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According to Posobiec, “The same message board that hosts ‘furry’ threads also hosts threads about ‘dismantling white supremacy.’

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“After 17 remarkable years at Meta, I have decided that it is time to close this chapter and begin building my company—something I have wanted to do for some time,” Hegeman said in a different post on the company’s internal message board that was viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

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Today these companies are shielded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a law written in 1996—only two years after President Bill Clinton sent his first email and when the internet was little more than a digital message board.

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Late one night in November 1996, while on a cardiology rotation at St. Thomas Hospital, in Nashville, Tennessee, he logged on to a hospital computer and went to a message board called techstocks.com.

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