Subj : Re: The Documentary...
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : Frank Vest
Date : Sun Jul 31 2005 10:21 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

Since it is a history, what did you expect?

Sinister x wrote:
> You think that was a great documentary? I thought it had a lot of defeatist 
> attitudes towards BBSing and a lot of people pining over the 300 baud days 
> and pay-for BBS's acting like a bunch of vietnam vets... The ansi scene part 
> really pissed me off as well as it was only the views of people who had come 
> and gone in the ansi scene, not from any of the people who still do it b/c 
> they enjoy it and aren't into all of the politics that existed before. We've 
> got the technology nowadays to do tons more than we ever thought possible 
> when dial-up was the only option.
> 
> "Chickenhead" <chickenhead@vert.synchro.net.remove-mjp-this> wrote in 
> message news:42D19E13.32660.sync@vert.synchro.net...
> 
>>Hey Digital Man:
>>
>>Just got my copy of "BBS: The Documentary".  GREAT set of discs.  It was 
>>nice
>>to be able to put a face to the scene, past and present.  I must say, 
>>you're
>>the least geeky of the bunch interviewed!
>>
>>
>>(Heh..and they spelled Art Cancro's last name wrong... :)
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