New Podcast episode: interview with Jason Scott on the history and
cultural significance of BBS's
reddit / bbs

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nolageek · 2015-10-21 17:55

Listening to it now (about 1/4 of the way through) - I know the scene
is *nowhere* near as large as it used to be, but I'm bummed that no
one has mentioned yet that there are still BBSs in some form that are
still around.

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NuSkooler · 2015-10-21 18:27

Just finished listening myself, and I agree: I kept waiting/hoping
that that would be talked about.

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NuSkooler · 2015-10-21 18:28

Thanks a lot for posting this, I always enjoy content from Jason Scott
(and of course BBS's in particular!)

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[deleted] · 2015-10-21 19:56

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mro_1337 · 2015-10-23 00:26

agh. there he is again with the fucking black angel wings and the top
hat

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mro_1337 · 2015-10-23 00:32

That (no talk of current bbses) is also something that rob swindell
talked about when the bbs doc came out long ago.  Jason has no
interest in bbses past the 80s.   he will not talk about or
acknowledged what has gone on since the third wave ended in the mid
90s.

 he's not a bbs expert, even. i'm not sure if he even called that many
back in the day.  He's a guy that takes other people's files(some are
even still online)and re-hosts them.

Jason Scott's bbs documentary really loses its luster if you REALLY
take a look at it.  what it really is, is a lost opportunity (all
those trips and interviews and only a few mins of clips from people)
and a LOT of facetime for a handful of his friends.

personally, my favorite part of it was the pkware vs SEA, but it was
one sided because katz was dead and some developments about the
situation popped up after the doc was out.  you can probably find more
on this in the blog comments on ascii.textfiles.com if they havent
been truncated.