15 Apr
2005
15 Apr
'05
10:05 a.m.
Scott Stevens wrote:
There's a need for someone to write a good solid
history of 1980's BBS
culture. A lot of complicated socioligical (sp?) phenomena has never
really been well explored and recorded that I know of. I.e. : if you
let your message base be taken over by 'the dude who types in all caps'
people quit responding. Then there are no new messages for people to
see and respond to. After they call two times and there are no new
messages, they never call again. Boards could die OVERNIGHT that way,
and often did.
Jason Scott's BBS Documentary touches on that a little. Not a lot, but it is
definitely covered throughout the interviews. The segment you'll want to watch
when he publishes it next month is "SYSOPS and USERS".
--
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