The information below was taken from BBS woodshop's website
http://bbsmfg.com/frequently-asked-questions/What does BBS stand for?We tell people that BBS doesn’t stand for anything, and that it’s just BBS, or that it’s an acronym for whatever comes to mind, but of course it does stand for something, just something that doesn’t have the same meaning today as it was intended to have.
BBS stands for Bare Back Skateboards, which started as a Longboard Brand in 1996. The original skateboard that we made, and the idea behind the name, was a skateboard that you rode barefoot, and without grip tape. This was all around the time that the internet was just getting started.
Within a few years, the internet had exploded, and the Porn Industry cornered the term Bareback. When anyone tried to search up our Skateboard Company, they would get bombarded with Porn Pop Ups and Computer Viruses. By the early 2000’s we had abandoned running the Longboard Brand in favor of OEM Manufacturing, so we dropped Bare Back Skateboards to just BBS.So, if anyone asks, it’s just “BBS”.