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BBS Documentary
''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. Production work began in July 2001, and completed in December 2004. The finished product began shipping in May 2005. Although the documentary was released under the Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike 2.0 License and later under 3.0, meaning that anyone can legally download it for free, the author has made it known that the downloadable version is only a fraction of the available material and recommends that individuals purchase the documentary DVDs. Episodes Disc 1: # Baud: the beginnings of the first BBSes, featuring Ward Christensen and Randy Suess # SysOps and Users: experiences from those who used and operated BBSes, including B.W. Behling from ''Ahoy!'' magazine Disc 2: # Make it Pay: the BBS industry of the 1980s and 90s fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Jason Scott
Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13, 1970) is an American archivist, historian of technology, filmmaker, performer, and actor. Scott has been known by the online pseudonyms Sketch, SketchCow, Sketch The Cow, The Slipped Disk, and textfiles. He has been called "the figurehead of the digital archiving world". Scott is the creator, owner and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which archives files from historic bulletin board systems. He is the creator of a 2005 documentary film about BBSes, '' BBS: The Documentary'', and a 2010 documentary film about interactive fiction, '' GET LAMP''. Scott lives in New York state. He was the co-owner of the late Twitter celebrity cat Sockington. He works for the Internet Archive and has given numerous presentations at technology related conferences on the topics of digital history, software, and website preservation. Early life Jason Scott Sadofsky graduated from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York, and served on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |