While the proffered "timeline" of the online world seems (as some have suggested) to actually be the timeline of one particular person's online escapades, you may be interested to know that there is one person who is documenting the world of BBS's -- and doing it in great detail.
Check out Jason Scott's site for details. This fellow is travelling around North America doing filmed interviews with those who blazed some important trails.
Yes, he did interview me, too. We spoke of the Pyroto Mountain system (both in its original form and on the web), along with some other projects I did, such as the FreeSpeech (SASSy) project.
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While the proffered "timeline" of the online world seems (as some have suggested) to actually be the timeline of one particular person's online escapades, you may be interested to know that there is one person who is documenting the world of BBS's -- and doing it in great detail.
Check out Jason Scott's site for details. This fellow is travelling around North America doing filmed interviews with those who blazed some important trails.
Yes, he did interview me, too. We spoke of the Pyroto Mountain system (both in its original form and on the web), along with some other projects I did, such as the FreeSpeech (SASSy) project.