DragonDon.net » documentary http://dragondon.net My little corner of the Interwebs Fri, 18 May 2012 23:03:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 BBS: The Documentary (2005) http://dragondon.net/2010/06/15/bbs-the-documentary-2005/ http://dragondon.net/2010/06/15/bbs-the-documentary-2005/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:00:37 +0000 DragonDon http://dragondon.net/?p=416 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.

Click the following link to watch the video for free!

http://www.archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary

Thanks goes to Jason Scott for making such a great documentary!

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