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Love the documentary, and met some of the folks in real life. Worth watching, if you lived the bbs days, or you're just interested in computer history.

Previous submissions:

Dec 2023 (65 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38746221

Nov 2021 (230 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29140217

May 2015 (23 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9521867

From the wonderful Jason Scott, now of the Internet Archive. I wonder if this post of the documentary on youtube is alright with him? (I guess it's been on youtube for quite some time.)

IIRC, the "originals" are available on a dedicated site by Jason Scott, and I'm told if his name is typed three times on HN he appears . . .

Itself a great callback to the days of the perpetually feisty Derek Smart!

And on the Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/BBS_Documentary_DVD_Set

From Jason - https://ascii.textfiles.com/

> The work was always open licensed and it can be downloaded very easily from a variety of places.

one of my favourites along with the net - unibomber

BBS: The Documentary [video]