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HN recommends it as a definitive, nostalgic history of BBS culture whenever people ask what the pre-internet online world was like.
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.
“BBS: The Documentary is covers a lot of what you’re asking about.” (HN, 2019)
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]
Nerdy documentary on bulletin board system culture
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]
Jason Scott's 8-episode documentary on BBS subculture
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]
Points to a collection of the documentary's episodes
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?
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