BBS documentary

Computer Collector Newsletter wrote: What was presented was a rough cut of one episode only; there are 8 in the DVD set. I was the post-production quality tech, so I've seen the entire thing already in nearly-finished form. It's over 5 hours of material divided up semi logically into episodes (birth of the BBS, death of the BBS, social interaction between user-user, sysop-sysop, sysop-user, the "art" scene (drawing pictures using only ASCII), etc.). I can't give it a proper review, because what *I* want from a BBS documentary has no niche and will never be produced (I want technical details and lots of inside geek info). What Jason produced is for his target audience, which is 18-35 people of today who barely remember (or never knew about) BBSes, for which he delivers an outstanding product. I'm not saying it lacks meat -- there is definitely a lot of meat -- but it is slanted toward people under 50, so it rehashes a lot of info that we already know. The most interesting segments are the ones involving social interaction (how BBSes enabled interaction between people who would normally never connect, etc.). It is easily worth the $50 price and I highly recommend everyone here purchase a copy. In addition to 5 hours of edited material (for which there was 240 source hours of interviews), the entire set has a Creative Commons license, so that alone is worth supporting. -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/