Subj : Re: The Documentary...
To   : Sinister x
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Aug 01 2005 02:30 pm

  Re: Re: The Documentary...
  By: Sinister x to alt.bbs.synchronet on Sun Jul 31 2005 07:03 pm

 > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 > 
 > You think that was a great documentary?

I thought it was very educational and entertaining.

 > 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.

I agree. I think in general Jason did a poor job of covering the post-80's BBS
era, but he hit the "high points" with good detail. And the episodes were very
professionally produced.

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