Hundreds of Hours of BBS Documentary Interviews

Jason Scott writes "Hi, this is Jason Scott, director of the BBS Documentary, a 4 year project to tell the story of the dial-up bulletin board systems of the 70s, 80s and 90s. The documentary's out, for sale, and is completely Creative Commons licensed. But like most documentaries, there's tons of stuff left on the cutting room floor. And that just won't do. I'm happy to announce that I have partnered with archive.org to present what will be hundreds of hours of interviews online. The BBS Documentary Interview Collection will be extended edits of the 205 interviews I conducted, presented as video and audio files, along with ZIP archives of all the photos and supporting materials for that interview. And of course, every minute is Creative Commons licensed as well. It's going to take me upwards of half a year to edit and upload the half-terabyte of files; I hope people watch a few hours here and there to get an even deeper knowledge of the history of the BBS, or maybe even make a documentary of their own."

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Creative commons licensed??

[alarch]

what does that mean? creative commons offer many different licences, from public domain like, through open source, to closed, proprietary licences. That statement does not convey any useful info.

where'd the porn go?

[circletimessquare]

Hi, this is Jason Scott, director of the BBS Documentary, a 4 year project to tell the story of the dial-up bulletin board systems of the 70s, 80s and 90s.

cool

The documentary's out, for sale, and is completely Creative Commons licensed. But like most documentaries, there's tons of stuff left on the cutting room floor.

that's where the porn went

And that just won't do. I'm happy to announce that I have partnered with archive.org to present what will be hundreds of hours of interviews online.

cool! you get to announce your new retro '80s porn site on slashdot! ...sorry, couldn't resist, all in good humor

thank you Jason for making the documentary ;-)