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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

Mustang — You have these kids who were 12 and now theyre raising families and theyre happy and you feel like a father figure - kids were being raised by these and they had guidance

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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 be connected at once. He released the finished eight-part documentary in 2005 under a Creative Commons licence, and then did the more unusual thing of releasing the unedited interviews as well, which is what this is. The speaker is Mustang. The filename carries the editing marker "ABSOLUTE KEEPER" — the director's own note that this clip was worth keeping.

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