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PC communication

PC communication noun: nationwide computer networks that preceded the World Wide Web/Internet, with telnet-based dial-up connections and bulletin board messaging systems.

Noun

PC communication (countable and uncountable, plural PC communications)

  1. (South-Korea) Nationwide computer networks that preceded the World Wide Web/Internet, with telnet-based dial-up connections and bulletin board messaging systems.
    • 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.1999, Korea Trade & Investment
    • Images and information acquired from the Internet are distributed throughout Korean PC communication systems.2013 July 4, James B. Lewis, Amadu Sesay, Korea and Globalization: Politics, Economics and Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22

Examples of PC communication in a sentence

  • 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.2016 September 13, Hyunjoon Shin, Seung-Ah Lee, Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music, Routledge, →ISBN:
  • 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.2019 June, Gord Sellar, “My World Wobbled and Changed: An Interview with Soyeon Jeong”, in Clarkesworld Magazine:

Forms of PC communication

pluralPC communications

Origin of PC communication

Calque of Korean PC통신 (PCtongsin).

Questions about PC communication

What does PC communication mean?
PC communication means nationwide computer networks that preceded the World Wide Web/Internet, with telnet-based dial-up connections and bulletin board messaging systems.
How do you use PC communication in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is PC communication?
PC communication is a noun.
What is the plural of PC communication?
The plural of PC communication is PC communications.

Words near PC communication in the dictionary

  1. PC bangs
  2. PC Card
  3. PC Cards
  4. PC clone
  5. PC clones
  6. PC communication
  7. PC Plod
  8. PC Plods
  9. PC shaming
  10. PC speaker
  11. PC speakers

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