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BBS TheDocumentary Part 1 Baud
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Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer... • ....there was a brave and pioneering band of computer users who spent their time, money and sanity setting up their home computers and phone lines to welcome anyone who called. By using a modem, anyone else who knew the phone number of these computers could connect to them, leave messages, send and recieve files.... and millions did. • They called these places Bulletin Board Systems , or BBSes. And their collections of messages, rants, thoughts and dreams became the way that an entire generation learned about being online. • When the Internet grew in popularity in the early 1990s, the world of the BBS faded, changed, and became a part of the present networked world.. but it wasn't the same. • 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 , 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. • Baud introduces the story of the beginning of the BBS, including interviews with Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, who used a snowstorm as an inspiration to change the world. • Sysops and Users introduces the stories of the people who used BBSes, and lets them tell their own stories of living in this new world. • Make it Pay covers the BBS industry that rose in the 1980's and grew to fantastic heights before disappearing almost overnight. • Fidonet covers the largest volunteer-run computer network in history, and the people who made it a joy and a political nightmare. • Artscene tells the rarely-heard history of the ANSI Art Scene that thrived in the BBS world, where art was currency and battles waged over nothing more than pure talent. • HPAC (Hacking Phreaking Anarchy Cracking) hears from some of the users of underground BBSes and their unique view of the world of information and computers. • Compression tells the story of the PKWARE/SEA legal battle of the late 1980s and how a fight that broke out over something as simple as data compression resulted in waylaid lives and lost opportunity. • No Carrier wishes a fond farewell to the dial-up BBS and its integration into the Internet. • Ideal as either a teaching tool or a reminder of your own memories, the BBS Documentary Collection brings back this nearly-forgotten time in a way that will tell the story... one caller at a time. • This documentary is creative commons license, but please do support its creator if you enjoy this and if you can: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
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