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Audiobooks & Video Training Jean-Christophe Grange - Le Concile De Pierre
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Audiobooks & Video Training BBS: The Documentary (2005)
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More BBS: The Documentary (2005) DVD Info: Year: 2005 Country: US Runtime: ~330 Minutes Audio 1: English MP2 Stereo (224 kbps) Audio 2 (Director's Commentary): English LPCM Stereo (1536 kbps) Subtitles: English Video Format: NTSC File Format: VIDEO_TS Resolution: 720x480 Aspect Ratio: 4:3 DVD Format: Fullscreen DVD Source: DVD9 DVD Distributor: Program: ImgBurn, AnyDVD Average Bit Rate: 6.77 Mb/sec Size: 18.2 GB Menus: Untouched Video: Untouched DVD-extras: Untouched DVD-Audio: Untouched Before the Internet became the way to connect to the world through a computer, life had already started to move online. Throughout the planet, regular folks were taking their new home computers, connecting them to a modem and a phone line, and starting Bulletin Board Systems, or BBSes. Once numbering in the tens of thousands, these "Dial-up Bulletin Boards" have mostly disappeared and mostly been forgotten... except by the people who lived, loved and worked on them. Director Jason Scott travelled thousands of miles and filmed over 200 people about their stories of the BBS, resulting in this 8 episode, five and a half hour long mini-series. The three DVDs in the set are region free, copy protection free, and Creative Commons licensed. They're also a lot of fun as the various episodes cover different aspects of the BBS Story. Disc 1 Baud: the beginnings of the first BBSes, featuring Ward Christensen and Randy Suess [39:12] SysOps and Users: experiences from those who used and operated BBSes [44:44] Disc 2 Make it Pay: the BBS industry of the 1980s and 90s [46:48] FidoNet: details the largest volunteer-run computer network in history [43:56] Artscene: the history of the ANSI Art Scene which thrived in the BBS world [42:41] Disc 3 HPAC (Hacking Phreaking Anarchy Cracking): hear from the users of "underground" BBSes [38:22] No Carrier: the end of the dial-up BBS and its integration into the Internet [21:32] Compression: the story of the PKWARE/SEA legal battle of the late 1980s [20:46]
The "ВВS Documentary" is actually a collection of eight separate episodes of varying length, each focused on one aspect of the Bulletin Board story. They all assume some amount of knowledge about bulletin board systems, from "very little" to "a lot". A Bulletin Board System ["ВВS" for short] is a home computer connected to a phone line, via a modem, which other people with computers and modems could call and leave messages. They started in 1978 and still exist today. There are a lot less of them than there used to be. They were a lot of fun. A lot of the people in these episodes use terms without explaining them. These terms Include: Boards: A short form of "Bulletin Вoard System". Sysops: People who ran ВВSes. Users: People who used ВBSes. Baud: How fast information Came from a ВВS. Callers: Another term for Users. These episodes are more often about people than technology. Technology can be explained in a book; here it's the people who tell their story. Sometimes the people talking are famous, and sometimes they are not. The Bulletin Boards were used by everyone, so a lot of different people are in these episodes talking about them. (Almost 200!) It Is more about what they say, than who they are. Some Final Hints: There are hours and hours of episodes in this collection. Pace them out, and enjoy them over time. Try the subtitles in each episode; some do different things than just "subtitle". There are old BBS phone numbers on the screen in almost all the episodes; they do not work anymore, so please do not call them. Thanks for reading, and enjoy the show. Extras: Here are some screenshots (taken at actual resolution, of course. Click each pic for full size): Get it here: Disc 1: ----------------------------- Disc 2: ----------------------------- Disc 3: ----------------------------- Password: & 119;& 119;& 119;& 46;& 65;& 118;& 97;& 120;& 72;& 111;& 109;& 101;& 46;& 114;& 117;
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