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BBS: The Documentary
Season 1
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Broadcast date
21-05-2005 • 8 episodes
Episodes of this season
1. Baud
Baud introduces the story of the beginning of the BBS, including interviews with Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, who used a snowstorm as an inspiration to change the world.
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2. SysOps and Users
Sysops and Users introduces the stories of the people who used BBSes, and lets them tell their own stories of living in this new world.
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3. Make It Pay
Make it Pay covers the BBS industry that rose in the 1980's and grew to fantastic heights before disappearing almost overnight.
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4. FidoNet
Fidonet covers the largest volunteer-run computer network in history, and the people who made it a joy and a political nightmare.
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5. Artscene
Artscene tells the rarely-heard history of the ANSI Art Scene that thrived in the BBS world, where art was currency and battles waged over nothing more than pure talent.
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6. HPAC (Hacking Phreaking Anarchy Cracking)
HPAC (Hacking Phreaking Anarchy Cracking) hears from some of the users of "underground" BBSes and their unique view of the world of information and computers.
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7. No Carrier
No Carrier wishes a fond farewell to the dial-up BBS and its integration into the Internet.
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8. Compression
Compression tells the story of the PKWARE/SEA legal battle of the late 1980s and how a fight that broke out over something as simple as data compression resulted in waylaid lives and lost opportunity.
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