BBS: The Documentary (2005)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

4h 56m

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of the early online communities that formed around bulletin board systems. It covers the people and culture that developed before the modern internet, created by a computer historian who collected the material over several years.

nostalgicinformativeearnestdetailedreflectivecommunity-focusedslow-pacedretro

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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