Wired News covers "BBS: The Documentary"
Here's the article which also explains a little about the BBS world:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67776,00.html
BBS: The Documentary is a 3 DVD set. A little high at $50 though. You can buy it here:
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
The BBS days were great. I ran one called Salt City Online back in 1993. It grew to become one of the largest boards in the Syracuse, NY area. It had 400 users and was the VirtualNet AC. VirtualNet was a network people could send email across. The AC meant Area Coordinator. Salt City was the Northeastern hub. Messages going to the northeastern US and southeastern Canada were routed the the BBS. It usually took around 2 - 10 days to get an email to someone, depending on how far away they were. VirtualNet was a lot like FidoNet... Eventually Salt City grew to carry (free) Internet Email. It provided Internet Email before AOL did. I will have to get some screenshots up someday. Back to work..
Len (Owner)
Absolute Computers
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67776,00.html
BBS: The Documentary is a 3 DVD set. A little high at $50 though. You can buy it here:
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
The BBS days were great. I ran one called Salt City Online back in 1993. It grew to become one of the largest boards in the Syracuse, NY area. It had 400 users and was the VirtualNet AC. VirtualNet was a network people could send email across. The AC meant Area Coordinator. Salt City was the Northeastern hub. Messages going to the northeastern US and southeastern Canada were routed the the BBS. It usually took around 2 - 10 days to get an email to someone, depending on how far away they were. VirtualNet was a lot like FidoNet... Eventually Salt City grew to carry (free) Internet Email. It provided Internet Email before AOL did. I will have to get some screenshots up someday. Back to work..
Len (Owner)
Absolute Computers
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