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Jason ScottBBS: The Documentary (2005)

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.


This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies

Director: Jason Scott
Producer: Jason Scott
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: bbs; documentary; jason scott; computer history

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States


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Episode 1332 MB153 MB 163 MB
Episode 1 96 MB
Episode 1 42 MB
Episode 2336 MB166 MB 186 MB
Episode 2 110 MB
Episode 2 48 MB
Episode 3339 MB158 MB 195 MB
Episode 3 115 MB
Episode 3 50 MB
Episode 4320 MB152 MB 182 MB
Episode 4 108 MB
Episode 4 47 MB
Episode 5345 MB162 MB 178 MB
Episode 5 105 MB
Episode 5 45 MB
Episode 6347 MB142 MB 159 MB
Episode 6 94 MB
Episode 6 41 MB
Episode 7182 MB73 MB 90 MB
Episode 7 53 MB
Episode 7 23 MB
Episode 8154 MB63 MB 86 MB
Episode 8 51 MB
Episode 8 22 MB

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Reviewer: MRoblivious1bmf - [3.0 out of 5 stars] - May 6, 2009
Subject: thanks for the upload
Thanks for the upload.

the bbsdoc isnt perfect, i'm not sure if it ever could have been perfect with the huge amount of content that jason amassed.

it's good and the bbs community is lucky to have it.

looking forward to the individual interviews with the developers and bbs folk. perhaps there can be some recuts from fans

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