BBS: The Documentary

Slartibartfast

Saw this last night, found it pretty interesting. I had no idea dial-up BBSs were commercialized back then.
It's all creative commons.

The invention of the protocols and software (out of serendipity)

Sysops and Users, some of these people are strange.

Make it Pay:

I tried connecting to fidonet recently, lost interest:

ASCII Art is still around for warezz releases:

HPAC (Hacking Phreaking Anarchy Cracking):

It seemed that most of the time, BBSs went down due to lack of interest/hardware failure:

I had heard about the .ARC controversy before but never really looked into it:

RemadE

Nice find! I was having a nostalgic week looking at ASCII and ANSI art and thinking of the old BBS stuff (but I was too young to appreciate my dad's interests). Will be watching this :thumbsup:

Also one of them might be Jeff Hunter

Dfg

This will come in handy for my projects in the Uni, I intend to create short films and documentaries and yes I intend to use Voice overs from totseans community .

Slartibartfast

^^^ hook up with Paco, he's doing the same sort of thing. Although he's suffering from writers block (I advised him to drink).

Dfg

Slartibartfast wrote: »

^^^ hook up with Paco, he's doing the same sort of thing. Although he's suffering from writers block (I advised him to drink).

Jesus, I could write and make it. It would be a joint project .