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Jason Scott - BBS: The Documentary (2005)

Posted By: Polik88

Date: 30 May 2013 18:05:47

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.
Director Jason Scott spent three years traveling throughout the country documenting stories of the people and events that made the BBS what it was. The resulting 250 hours of footage were edited down into multiple episodes, each dealing with one aspect of the BBS. Ideal as either a teaching tool or a reminder of your own memories, the BBS Documentary Collection brings back this nearly-forgotten time in a way that will tell the story… one caller at a time.

Part 1: Baud
Introduces the story of the beginning of the BBS, including interviews with Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, who used a snowstorm as an inspiration to change the world.

Part 2: SysOps
Presents the stories of the people who used BBSes, and lets them tell their own stories of living in this new connected world.

Part 3: Make it Pay
Covers the BBS industry that rose in the 1980's and grew to fantastic heights before disappearing almost overnight.

Part 4: FidoNet
Covers the largest volunteer-run computer network in history, and the people who made it a joy and a political nightmare.

Part 5: Artscene
Tells the rarely-heard history of the ANSI Art Scene that thrived in the BBS world, where art was currency and battles waged over nothing more than pure talent.

Part 6: HPAC (Hacking Phreaking Anarchy Cracking)
Hears from some of the users of "underground" BBSes and their unique view of the world of information and computers.

Part 7: No Carrier
The end of the dial-up BBS and its integration into the Internet

Part 8: Compression
Tells the story of the PKWARE/SEA legal battle of the late 1980s and how a fight that broke out over something as simple as data compression resulted in interrupted lives and lost opportunity.

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