> The BBS (bulletin board system) scene of the 80s and 90s was a magical time. > 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. > In the Summer of 2001, Jason Scott, a computer historian (owner textfiles.com) 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, was made available in 2005. > 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.
I re-watch it often, pretty cool documentary. Should be mandatory for noob Jow Forumsents.
Jack Moore
true.
Cooper Cooper
they were just shitty versions of the internet
John Howard
the internet has been destroyed by mainstream faggots. it used to be better. it might have not been as beautiful as today with all the spa frameworks and css3 but the people you hung out with were based.
Jackson Robinson
I've met him a few times. Off camera he is way less animated in my experience.
am i the only one who finds those bbs appealing? i somehow would love to write a bbs. :)
Christian Ortiz
How can we harvest these feels for p2p meshnets?
gnunet/zeronet/i2p/ect
David Sanchez
>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 ah yes, the pioneering bravery of a 15 year old kid with a copy of renegade and a spare phone line
Logan Collins
also join amprnet
those fuckers still use bbs
Xavier Nguyen
Lol, 15 year old didn't even have PCs and PCs still sucked at the time
Hunter Miller
>15 year old didn't even have PCs you must be a zoomer if you don't think 15 year olds had PCs in the 90s >PCs still sucked at the time true, unless you had a lot of money
Text files were the shit. Loved trading floppies of them.
Camden Baker
bbs' were awesome. irc, usenet, and telnet games were a logical extension. then the web browser came along and ruined the internet for good.
Ethan Fisher
I hate how everything is now consolidated on the web browser, when there's not really any thing it does well. It's supposed to be for linking documents, but the documents are shit.
Chase Sullivan
HTTP was a mistake. I miss gopher. >sadfrog.png
Alexander Morales
there's a repeat somewhere in the middle and the audio desyncs during very interesting so far though
Julian Butler
I for one would love to see a gnunet bbs
William Phillips
Text boards were the closest the web ever got to BBSs, all you need is a small pastebin-like section for text files and it would be pretty much all there.
The issue is nobody wants to leave their browser anymore. We could set something up for people on Jow Forums but the majority of the people on this board wouldn't be wanted in an environment like a bbs.
Christian Moore
On a related note, what languages have the best (most accessible) libraries for creating TUIs?
Angel Myers
why leave the browser just to text chat on a terminal. i mean this site is basically a bbs.
Justin Davis
He still hasn't returned my magazines after I lent them to him to scan. Nigger.
Juan Parker
based
Zachary Ward
>oh this sounds interesting maybe worth a wa- >5 fucking hours long
i don't know... i kinda like the format and i think it will keep normies away.
Ryder Lopez
sorry, i misread your post and accidentally quoted you.
Jack James
The uploader should've kept the episode format. This is a series of 20-45 minute episodes.
There should be torrents around if you're still interested.
Samuel Taylor
The BBS series documentary is great. Jason Scott is an OG. I cut my teeth with 1200 baud dial up hitting local BBS's in 206.
Jace Wood
I think that "ease of use" in computer has lead to the downfall of anyone knowing what anything is.
Dominic Jones
This. Absolutely this.
Colton Watson
BBS scene was amazing. Computing during the 80s-90s is something I feel very blessed to have experienced and love seeing people keep the scene alive through either retro actives (reddit has a good retro computing subreddit) or watching the BBS documentary over and over.
I'd rush home after school and either dial into my normal BBS's (though might be a lot of busy signals at this time) or just dial random BBS's from a BBS list I had downloaded.
It lead later into wardialing and other computer exploring. Eventually ended up with a shell account on a university server and then discovering things like telnet, gopher, usenet..
It all changed from there.
Benjamin Collins
this The torrent I got is 2.9GB. Runtime is about 6.75 Hours. Haven't finished it, myself but I definitely want to someday.
Asher Williams
let him go down on me once, he was good, but i wasnt into it.
Jack Smith
Has he even scanned them yet? He seems like a busy guy. Also nice get
Owen Morris
Are there any active bbs services still around? I mean it prob wouldn't be so bad if someone had one for this place.
Asher Powell
it was such a one sided and weak attempt at documenting the bbs world. usa far greater boards than what was shown or talked about in this video, as did europe. would not watch again. do not want it to taint my memories of what it was really like.. and it wasn't cucked as this.
Ryan Foster
>Text boards were the closest the web ever got to BBSs, bulletin boards moved to telnet during the 90s. there's still lots running. image boards are just a bootleg of old bbs setups.
Joshua Cooper
>Are there any active bbs services still around? yes, lots.
Jaxon Garcia
I will make the logo
Joseph Powell
>you must be a zoomer if you don't think 15 year olds had PCs in the 90s Turning the time when BBSs were most popular? They didn't. Sure after mid/late 90's they did.
