BBS: The Documentary (2005)
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 4h 56m
- Rating
- 7.9 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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