BBS: The Documentary (2005)
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BBS: The Documentary (2005)
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Re: BBS: The Documentary (2005)
#2Love the documentary; fond memories from those days of 2400bps. It has been posted here many times before; this is the one with most comments [1], 9 years ago.
Re: BBS: The Documentary (2005)
#3Love the documentary; fond memories from those days of 2400bps. It has been posted here many times before; this is the one with most comments [1], 9 years ago. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9521867
I think it's a comfy Christmas must watch...
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#4I used to hang both online and IRL with one of the folks in the documentary. Seems like yesterday. Still have nostaligic memories of being enamored by his stack of USR 16.8k HST modems and the T1 (iirc) he managed to get to his residence.. (again, iirc), his house was like under 1000 feet (loop length) to the CO (central office) where the 4ESS (telephone switch) was located. (could be inaccurate recollections..)
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#5https://archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary in case you're looking for a version which isn't 27GB.
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#6The day I was able to upgrade my 'shoebox' 110 baud modem to a 300 baud modem was the day I thought "I'll never need this kind of speed, but it's nice to have."
Thanks for posting about this documentary. I ran a BBS from 1983-1986 on a Commodore 64, a 1200 baud modem and 5 1541 floppy drives. An amazing time for this technology.
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#7BBS's are mostly a pre-web thing (and were largely divorced from the internet--for which you basically had to work for a small number of companies or universities to get on) so this documentary from @textfiles is a valuable piece of pre-web computer history. BBS's were a pretty important part of my early computer experience once PC's came out.
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#8Are there places where BBS is still in active use?
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#9I am really happy to have experienced bbses during my youth. Being too young (born 1983) for their golden age, I was lucky to have an older brother who allowed me to get a glimpse into this world.
Check out https://16colo.rs/ for good art from the time. And from groups who keep releasing such art to this date.
Re: BBS: The Documentary (2005)
#10Are there places where BBS is still in active use?
Well, there is about a thousand on https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/