In a previous 'BBS nostalgia' post from 2002, I predicted a trend toward "smaller online groups where communities are more intimate and specialized". Continuing to miss BBS culture and getting tired of waiting for the 'intimate and specialized' communities to emerge, I decided to go ahead and re-create one for myself.
A few weeks ago [...]
Tags: · BBS, Computers, Nostalgia, Open Source, Software, Technology
Is this very website is the impetus for stories run by all media outlets? Let's examine the facts:
On May 20th I wrote an article about the BBS culture. Suddenly, a very similar article appears in Salon.
On May 16th I wrote an article dealing with the privacy and liberty implications of PVR devices [...]
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In the 80s and early 90s, a very interesting community was emerging among computer users. Isolated machines were becoming connected by way of phone line, modem, and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS').
BBS' were generally single phone-line systems, meaning only one person could log in at a time. They were operated by passionate computer owners [...]
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