Perhaps a Wiki is a good place to start we can all throw in what we remember and see what we have.
Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art [email protected] www.eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ [email protected] www.littlepig.org.uk AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk From: marc garrett <[email protected]> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:59:35 +0100 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Remembering BBS Boards HI all, I thought that I'd Step back into the BBS discussion - I've been away for a couple of days so I missed out. As Alan mentioned, it would be very fascinating and great for contemporary Internet users if there was a publication about BBS culture. Especially grass root BBS's - features around various artists, thinkers, activists and groups who used them at the time and where they are now... marc > I've wanted to see a history of these for years - there was and still is, > http://www.mono.org that I was on for quite a while. Their cultures were > amazing and really undocumented (I feel the same about newsgroups, in > spite of Google, and early IRC) and important since they grew into other > modes of "web 2.0" which should be "web 0.0" or some such - ascii-based > community. > > Anyway, thanks! > > - Alan > > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, marc garrett wrote: > >> Remembering BBS Boards >> >> A few of the BBS Boards I used before the Internet and its early days - >> Fast Breeder, Cybercafe, New World Disorder, ENTITY, Blue Obsession, >> Darkness Descends and many more... >> >> "A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software >> that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal >> program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading >> and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and >> exchanging messages with other users, either through electronic mail or >> in public message boards. Many BBSes also offer on-line games, in which >> users can compete with each other, and BBSes with multiple phone lines >> often provide chat rooms, allowing users to interact with each other." >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system >> >> My main involvement with BBS Boards began with Cybercafe with a certain >> MR.Bunting (http://www.irational.org/cybercafe) >> >> marc >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> > > > > | Alan Sondheim Mail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > | Webpage (directory) at http://www.alansondheim.org > | [email protected], [email protected], tel US 718-813-3285 > ! http://www.facebook.com/alan.sondheim > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201
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