BBS the Documentary [Full HD]
L33T GUY2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2018–2026
documentary · general · evergreen · 2018–2026 on HN
Jason Scott's multi-episode documentary on the bulletin board system scene of the 1980s and 1990s, built from over 200 interviews. It captures how hobbyists ran dial-up systems before the internet went mainstream.
HN recommends it as a definitive, nostalgic history of BBS culture whenever people ask what the pre-internet online world was like.
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4 comments from Hacker News
Not a write up but BBS: The Documentary is covers a lot of what you’re asking about. BBS: The Documentary (commonly referred to as BBS Documentary) is a 3-disc, 8-episode documentary about the subculture born from the creation of the bulletin board system (BBS) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com. link ▶ this video
Some of my favourite nerdy documentaries: BBS: The Documentary ▶ this video The KGB, the Computer, and Me link 8 Bit Generation: The Commodore Wars link
Related: link link link link ▶ this video link BBS: The Documentary (2005) - link - December 2023 (65 comments) Enjoyed Jason Scott’s BBS documentary - link - June 2022 (39 comments) Ask HN: What was it like to use BBS? - link - November 2021 (230 comments) The Full BBS Documentary Interviews Are Going Online - link - Jan 2018 (1 comment) BBS the Documentary (2013) [video] - link - May 2015 (23 comments) Others?
That seems be to a collection of clips and things. The 'BBS: The Documentary' was released as ~8 episdoes. You can find them collected here: ▶ this video