Memories! "BBS: The Documentary" is an 8 episode series about all aspects of the history of the dial-up Bulletin Board System, or BBS. 3 years in the making and the result of over 200 interviews, this collection puts in one convenient package a sense of the variety and wide-reaching effects of the BBS phenomenon. All in all, over seven and a half hours of material is included across the three region-free DVDs. [via] Link.
BBS: The Documentary
Memories! "BBS: The Documentary" is an 8 episode series about all aspects of the history of the dial-up Bulletin Board System, or BBS. 3 years in the making and the result of over 200 interviews, this collection puts in one convenient package a sense of the variety and wide-reaching effects of the BBS phenomenon. All in all, over seven and a half hours of material is included across the three region-free DVDs. [via] Link.
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You forgot to mention that it's also released under a Creative Commons license.
Anyway, I got mine a couple weeks ago and I'm almost through with disk 2. This is an awesome documentary - especially if, like me, you were very much into the BBS scene back in the 80's-90's.
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