BBS: The Documentary
2005 documentary film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BBS: The Documentary (commonly referred to as BBS Documentary) is a 3-disc, 8-episode documentary about the subculture born from the creation of the bulletin board system (BBS) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com.[1][2]
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Directed by | Jason Scott |
Written by | Jason Scott |
Produced by | Nicole Sparks |
Edited by | Jason Scott |
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Running time | 4 hours 58 minutes |
Language | English |
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Production work began in July 2001, and completed in December 2004. The finished product began shipping in May 2005.[3]
Although the documentary was released under the Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike 2.0 License[4] and later under 3.0,[5] meaning that anyone can legally download it for free, the author has made it known that the downloadable version is only a fraction of the available material and recommends that individuals purchase the documentary DVDs.