All Eight/8 Parts of The BBS Documentary Online

In the Summer of 2001, Jason Scott, a computer historian (and proprietor of the textfiles.com history site) wondered if anyone had made a film about these BBSes. They hadn't, so he decided he would.

Four years, thousands of miles of travelling, and over 200 interviews later, "BBS: The Documentary" [ http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ ], a mini-series of 8 episodes about the history of the BBS, is now available. Spanning 3 DVDs and totalling five and a half hours, this documentary is actually eight documentaries about different aspects of this important story in the annals of computer history.

All Episodes/Parts (free and legit according to http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/warez/ [Creative Commons]): Watch/Download all from https://archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary ...
antsays...

I started out with a true internal Hayes 2400 modem with Prodigy in my dad's IBM P70 portable (ugh, heavy and luggage size). Then, I got introduced into BBS'. And all hell gone lose and I was addicted.

I always wanted to run a BBS, but nope parents didn't allow it.

deathcowsays...

I remember dialing into the "Pirates of Puget Sound" and downloading warez. It was long distance so I made friends with the sysop and he was kind enough to mail be a real physical box of 5 and 1/4's, that was cool. I remember hanging out at dags house and he was dialed into some place on the USA east coast that had FORTY MEGABYTES OF SOFTWARE for download. I think the transfer program was called "?Apple Express? AE2?" something like that, it rocked the socks off the Commodore 64 trading software. I remember fighting for an hour to get a 28kb program transferred across town in the early days.

I remember a cool BBS in Anchorage where everyone was awarded the privilege of some "Dragon" type, like "Platinum Dragon" meant you had access to all the forums and "Red Dragon" meant you could only get to about half of them.

I remember a super-cool BBS call "Pyroto Mountain" where you had to answer trivia to work your way up the mountain.

citosays...

My favorite BBS was called "The Green Lantern BBS" I used a 300 baud in the early days on a trs 80 then moved to a tandy 1000 EX

hehe


sending email via FIDOnet before the internet came along

siftbotsays...

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