Mustang — People would look down on the BBS and ask why you were doing things that way instead of the phone but you could communicate so much better with the BBS

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

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