[NetBehaviour] Remembering BBS Boards

[Simon Biggs]

Mmm. I guess my earliest experience of BBS was Carl Loeffler and Judith
Hoffberg¹s ArtCom (San Francisco). That would have been around 1980. People
like Robert Adrian, Roy Ascott, Tom Klinkowstein and Eric Gidney were also
involved in related BBS projects at that time.

Although not focused on BBS there is a timeline for early telecommunications
art at:
http://1904.cc/timeline/tiki-index.php?page=communication+art

Regards

Simon

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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:23:33 -0400 (EDT)
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
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Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Remembering BBS Boards


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
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