BBS: The Documentary : Jason Scott : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer there was a brave and pioneering band of...
  • sgharms@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Great share. I was there.

    FidoNet, ANSI art, getting phone numbers on newsprint mags at local computer stores, the modem screeches, AT commands, phrack and cult of the dead cow…friends you’d meet at malls and then go to summer concerts with…online was an adjunct to life, not a closed garden overwrite of life itself.

    • plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Hah. I came in just at the tail of that - needing to add AT commands to get the 56k handshake to complete. Had no idea what any of them did, but they worked and made me feel like hackerman.

  • xyzzy@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I was an original backer for this project. I still have it on DVD! His next one about text adventure games was very good as well.