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PC communication (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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.
   • 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^[1]:

     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.