BBS: The Documentary : Jason Scott : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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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...
  • @sgharmsEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    Great share. I was there.

    FidoNet, ANSI art, getting phone numbers on newsprint mags at local computer stores, the modem screeches, AT commands, phrack and cult of the dead cow…friends you’d meet at malls and then go to summer concerts with…online was an adjunct to life, not a closed garden overwrite of life itself.

    • @plumbercraicEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Hah. I came in just at the tail of that - needing to add AT commands to get the 56k handshake to complete. Had no idea what any of them did, but they worked and made me feel like hackerman.

      • @sgharmsEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        ATH0

        It hung up!

  • @lackthoughtMEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    BBS was a bit before my time but I just finished episode 1 and it was a joy to listen to stories of computing back then

    The culture felt similar to what I recall from my early internet days, even if the hardware/software was different

  • @delialEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    This is a great watch! This is a piece of our digital history that I was not in the slightest aware of.

  • @xyzzy@lemm.eeEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    I was an original backer for this project. I still have it on DVD! His next one about text adventure games was very good as well.

  • badbaadadaEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    I love this especially the sysops part