BBS inventors - yes pre forums
 

After going through the discussion thread here in the community lounge about
the "pre internet"

I feel i have to share this to the rest.

A documentary about the BBS inventors and connecting across the world in 1977 ;)
this is not military or goverment, this is pure individuals and civils.

1978 file transfer protocol xfile :p

anyway take a look if you find it interesting..

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...bs+documentary

oh bbs, on a cga monitor with a massive 2400kbs modem, boy were they the good old days :D

http://www.dennis.ca/weblog/wp-conte...07/08/bbs2.jpg

:D

^ Most the boards that I went to didn't even look half that good... ;)

@Ukbusiness

that one looks great compared to what ive seen..
looks like "text-Tv" sweet.

Thats a fairly modern one, note the date '07 :eek:

But basically they were about that type of design, its amazing when you think that was the very begining of the world wide web. In the early days it didn't matter that you had to wait 13 hours for a 1mb file to download, (and if you could afford the phone bill!) The end result wasn't how long it took to get this file but, the pure fact that you've actually got it :D

Logging on to a BBS was an expensive hobby, long before the invention of Broadband and all the cheap packages.

Before Dixons bought out Freeserve, The Free Pay as you go Dial up, I had my finger in a few free dial up scripts, but never really followed it through ~ Wish i had now, gave up my dabbling with PC's and went into Engineering :o

so? what's next? after 'forums'

Not sure buddy, there's always a next for every thing, forums blogs, i can't see what can improve on those two in this day and age, who knows, the next 10 years might see something so different it will be worth millions, come on, let get to that level now!!!

That was a great doc. Didn't understand alot of it but need to document all this stuff. Thanks for sharing. I sent it to my brother who started out at CDI in the early 70's. He'll get a kick out of it.

Thanks for sharing this. :up:

Gabby

Hi Gabby

To think this was all just a few years ago, It makes you think just how far we've come in terms of technology and what will happen in the next 10 or 20 years, its almost frightening, It only seems a few years that i was 286 with a massive 40mb hard card which cost as much as the computer (Over ?1,000+ $1,500+)

I think as a collective, we should think what we can do to take us to the next level ;)

I agree. It's exciting to see things progress. We live in a great time of technological advancement. I admiret the men and woman smart enough to understand it.