PC communication
English
Etymology
Calque of Korean PC통신 (PCtongsin).
Noun
PC communication (countable and uncountable, plural PC communications)
- (South Korea) Nationwide computer networks that preceded the World Wide Web/Internet, with telnet-based dial-up connections and bulletin board messaging systems.
- 1999, Korea Trade & Investment:
- Financial cyber trading in Korea has been increasing steadily in the areas of stock trading and banking via telephone networks, modem-based PC communication and the Internet.
- 2013 July 4, James B. Lewis; Amadu Sesay, Korea and Globalization: Politics, Economics and Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22:
- Images and information acquired from the Internet are distributed throughout Korean PC communication systems.
- 2016 September 13, Hyunjoon Shin; Seung-Ah Lee, Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music, Routledge, →ISBN:
- In Korea, even before the high-speed world wide web became common, there were a lot of virtual communities online because of telnet-based PC communication technology.
- 2019 June, Gord Sellar, “My World Wobbled and Changed: An Interview with Soyeon Jeong”, in Clarkesworld Magazine:
- It wasn’t actually the ’90s but the early 2000s, for me. At that time, we weren’t connected via the web yet, but instead via a sort of Bulletin Board System that was called “PC communication” here.
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Translations
pre-Internet networks
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