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Part of BBS: The Documentary — interview clips, 701 episodes

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

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

Coyner — Dale holds up the Motorcycle Mouse Pads

2

Demicco — The Commodore will Last Forever

2

Alan — the Modem Competition Story

2

Alan — Describing the popularity of the BBS

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

Allen — INTENSE - Threaded vs other models

2

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

2

Allen — The saga of microphone

2

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

2

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

2

Anne Madison — the power and the wonder of the sysop

2

Anne Madison — The silly partisanship over PKZIP vs ARC

2

Bernstein — Defining how many nulls

2

Bernstein — Excellent overview of Diversidials

2

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

2

Bernstein — Tradewars was a lot of fun

2

Bernstein — Why go on DDials

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

Chet — The Biggest Talkers were the scrawniest kids

2

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

2

Chet — USR and Telebit always had things a little better

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

Coyner — I was looking for my TMCBBS License Plate

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

Defcon — Kaminsky - The qualities of a really good sysop

2

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

2

Demicco — EXCELLENT overview of the drive to be a sysop

2

Demicco — First nick - CDM - then NOCARRIER

2

Demicco — Got the All American BBS for Commodore 64

2

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

2

Demicco — Renegade could be so generic - telegard came back

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

Deth — Never a sysop always the co

2

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

2

Forsberg — Explanation of Leech ZMODEM

2

Garfield — Compuserve Was Too Huge

2

Garfield — Find One Number and then Get Others

2

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

2

Greeny — Had BBS parties in the dorm room

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

Gweeps — I played Barren Realms and Solar Realms

2

Gweeps — Booting the terminal program - reading from the screen

2

Gweeps — Lists some BBSes off his dialer

2

H2K2 — Kybo_Ren - Bumping up your modem

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

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

2

Heller — Remembers phone number from his first BBS

2

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

2

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

2

James Daniel — I remember line editors

2

James Daniel — Being a girl wasnt OK it WAS fun

2

James Daniel — Thoughts on ZIP and ARC fight

2

James Daniel — Was common if you liked a board to visit the sysop

2

Jayne — BBSes gave me a chance to become myself - no fear of being hit and reaction time to respond

2

Jayne — You had to be careful and make sure the media didnt jump on the bandwagon

2

Jennings — NEEDS EDIT - Engineer White Guys Demanding what people can say on their BBS

2

Jim Willing — BBSes were for information exchange and files slowed things down - but we got a quarter million calls on one line

2

John Wood — The motivation to being a sysop - the game of playing a screen - the reason for the power

2

Justin Cohen — Memories of being on a BBS as a kid and getting paged at the dinner table

2

Rubicon — Rubicon - BBS in a Funeral Home

2

Kay — I didnt make money to pay for a month out of a year

2

Keegan — It was a big deal meeting people because you could see them in your heads

2

Keegan — It was good enough to meet based on words

2

Kelly Smith — Getting Calls at 3am to reboot the system'

2

Kelly Smith — Getting Huge Drives from pertec

2

Larimore — Using the death threats for fundraising

2

Larimore — Dial Up BBSes had a sense of community

2

Larimore — I never felt marginalized - got along well with everyone - was amazed how people accepted a gay BBS

2

Larimore — I stopped going in live chat because it would make everyone hang up

2

Larimore — Found myself in a counselor position - helping people - the gay dear abby

2

Larimore — Great Overview of Phil Becker

2

Larimore — Money that came in extra became donated

2

Larimore — The GLIB Free Terminals

2

Larimore — The joy of using ANSI graphics to create the look and feel

2

Larimore — We werent running the gauntlet just filling a need - people who had bbs businesses had a much tougher time

2

Lord Soth — Much preferred the Social Aspects of BBSes

2

Lord Soth — Old School - The Years - People's Perceptions

2

Mentor — Some Favorite Boards - What Makes a Board Good

2

Milo — The Cops trained on the board

2

Milo — Mention of Pyroto Mountain

2

Mustang — IT was BBSes that caused divorces, affairs, and marriages - it caused my own marriage

2

Mustang — I wish that BBSes had found a place in todays technology - that theyd gotten in with the internet appliances and the rest

2

Mustang — The Radio DJ who would be on our board and announce things on the air

2

Nibble — Really looked up to Apple and the Way they did things

2

Nibble — System operator - SYS OP

2

Nibble — The Countlegger series is my best accomplishment

2

Nibble — You don't know the bad side of people

2

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3

612 — HBBS had all those graphic tricks

3

Allen — We created freeterm and mouse exchange

3

Allen — Writing a bootstrapping program on the Mac to be able to download better programs

3

cliff- KEEPER — cliff The carterphone decision and protective devices

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A clip from the raw interview footage shot for BBS: The Documentary. Jason Scott spent three years filming more than two hundred people who had run or used bulletin board systems — the dial-up boards that were the social internet before the internet, one phone line at a time, where you waited your turn because only one person could connect at once. He released the finished eight-part film in 2005 under a Creative Commons licence, and then did the more unusual thing of releasing the unedited interviews too, which is what this is. The speaker is cliff- KEEPER. The filename carries the editing marker "KEEPER" — the director's own note that the clip was worth keeping.

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