PTT Bulletin Board System
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Type of site
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Bulletin board system |
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| Available in | Big5 |
| Owner | The BBS Technology Research Club, National Taiwan University |
| Created by | Yi-Chin Tu |
| Website | https://www.ptt.cc |
| Alexa rank | May 8, 2015 Republic of China (Taiwan)：33 |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | September 14, 1995 |
| Current status | Active |
PTT Bulletin Board System (PTT, Chinese: 批踢踢實業坊; pinyin: Pītītī Shíyè Fāng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Phi-thek-thek Si̍t-gia̍p-hong, telnet://ptt.cc) is the largest terminal-based bulletin board system (BBS) based in Taiwan. It was founded by Yi-Chin Tu and other students from the National Taiwan University in 1995, and it is currently administrated by the Electronic BBS Research Society as a non-commercial and open-source BBS.
PTT has more than 1.5 million registered users, with over 150,000 users online during peak hours. The BBS has over 20,000 boards covering a multitude of topics, and more than 20000 articles and 500000 comments are posted every day.
Using the TELNET protocol, PTT provides a quick, instantaneous, free of charge, and open online forum community. Currently, PTT has two branch sites, PTT2 (批踢踢兔) and PTT3 (批踢踢參). Of the three sites, the main site PTT (ptt.cc) is largest in scale and capacity, currently handling up to 150,215 visitors online at a time (September 9, 2008), making it the largest Chinese language-based BBS in the world.
Since 2000, PTT has become the largest online forum in Taiwan due to its increasing number of users. Topics of various issues are enthusiastically discussed on PTT, even to a profound extent generating social impacts in reality. The newspaper and television media started to report on PTT, with journalists assigned to monitor PTT for the latest updates.
PTT is an open source project. The source code is released under GPL 2.0.
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