BBS Documentary Clips Collection: Baud — BBS Documentary Clips Collection: Baud

BBS Documentary Clips: Sysops and Users Part 1 — BBS Documentary Clips: Sysops and Users Part 1

Coyner — Dale holds up the Motorcycle Mouse Pads

Demicco — The Commodore will Last Forever

Alan — the Modem Competition Story

Alan — Describing the popularity of the BBS

Alan — Message to People about Mexico and it was Technologically Sound as Well

Alan — The Mexican Attitude for naming BBSes vs. American - Demonstrates Mexican colors with a dragon doll

Alan — The Shock of Meeting People - The American Who Didnt Know Mexico

Allen — INTENSE - Discussion of how BBS software authors like to construct conversations

Allen — INTENSE - Threaded vs other models

Allen — Macs had an elegant simplicty and the users wanted that in a BBS and it didnt jibe with non-mac people

Allen — The saga of microphone

Anne Madison — I called painframe and wondered what I got myself into but then he broke into chat and I was hooked

Anne Madison — In another century I'd write all the time and BBSes were the same

Anne Madison — the power and the wonder of the sysop

Anne Madison — The silly partisanship over PKZIP vs ARC

Bernstein — Defining how many nulls

Bernstein — Excellent overview of Diversidials

Bernstein — Starting up the hard drive - the hard drive was elite

Bernstein — Tradewars was a lot of fun

Bernstein — Why go on DDials

Brad — BBSes were run by one guy which was both good and bad

Brad — In the old days you could post something and 30 people would respond without knowing - now a flamewar takes 30 minutes

Bryan Scott Hill — Never give your home number to these people - HEY BRYAN THIS IS CHET

Campbell — I was always intruiged by the mental picture people had online

Campbell — We went down to our school computer and we were disappointed it was so small

Cheshire — People could hack the system but then just reload from cassette

Chet — The Biggest Talkers were the scrawniest kids

Chet — The Various Modems - USR and the formats and how important USR was

Chet — USR and Telebit always had things a little better

Chet Lawrence — Describes how the system was two machines with lantastic with a cover off and a monitor on top

Chet Lawrence — I could never have rebuilt it from scratch - it was the most amazing collection of spaghetti

Count Zero — I really had a sense of the place I was calling and being on that BBS - I cared about area codes where now I do not - I felt like when I called texas I was IN texas

Count Zero — Each BBS was like its own little country or world with its own rules and society

Count Zero — I liked to think of each BBS as its own little universe

Coyner — I was looking for my TMCBBS License Plate

DeLaplante — I was a good sysop, I was always there for them

DeLaplante — People looked up to you when you were a sysop

DeLaplante — The first time I downloaded a file and ran it it was amazing

DeLaplante — Using BBSes had become a religion to me - Id wake up and use them

Defcon — Kaminsky - The qualities of a really good sysop

Defcon — Kaminsky - The way that the limitations of getting on the BBS put more weight into what people were saying

Demicco — EXCELLENT overview of the drive to be a sysop

Demicco — First nick - CDM - then NOCARRIER

Demicco — Got the All American BBS for Commodore 64

Demicco — Heard about BBSes at Summer Camp - Went to Town

Demicco — Renegade could be so generic - telegard came back

Demicco — The Commodore was much easier to work with - things worked or they didnt

Demicco — The line was always busy and I had hundreds of users

Denton — There was a lot of power with being a sysop - you had sysop groupies

Denton — There was all sorts of intrigue and stuff around BBSes

Deth — I really feel I was there for the golden age

Deth — Never a sysop always the co

Deth — There were BBSes where the sysop was a vibrant part and others where they were not

Forsberg — Explanation of Leech ZMODEM

Garfield — Compuserve Was Too Huge

Garfield — Find One Number and then Get Others

Greene — It was a lot more work to keep the machine running

Greeny — Had BBS parties in the dorm room

Greeny — I have friends in countries and I will never meet them

Greeny — Making a prank board or giving the sysop's home as a BBS - every state had a jolly roger

Greeny — People didn't care about numbers - maybe trade numbers - like trading cards

Greeny — Ran a dating program and aimed the girls at himself

Gweeps — I had so many BBS names I kept forgetting them - always switching

Gweeps — I played Barren Realms and Solar Realms

Gweeps — Booting the terminal program - reading from the screen

Gweeps — Lists some BBSes off his dialer

H2K2 — Kybo_Ren - Bumping up your modem

H2K2 — Kybo_Ren - The Name of my Board was In Your Pants

H2K2 — Shredder - BBSes were about meeting people you wouldn't meet any other way

H2K2 — Silicon Dragon - Went by the Handle of Almighty Set

Hedkte — The thing I must get across is how much FUN I had

Hedkte — You learned about hot chatting and typing with one hand

Heller — Remembers phone number from his first BBS

Jake Kouns — Deciding whether to let people into the BBS world

Jake Kouns — I'm stuck on the 8088s and here comes 9600 baud

James Daniel — I remember line editors

James Daniel — Being a girl wasnt OK it WAS fun

James Daniel — Thoughts on ZIP and ARC fight