• Dialed In

    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to All on Fri Apr 26 07:03:00 2024
    I went to a talk at the Computer History Museum last night titled
    "Dialed In: The Prehistory of Social Media".

    Kevin Driscoll, author of the book "Modem Media" and Danah Boyd, author
    of "It's Complicated: The social lives of networked teens" made up a
    panel with a moderator.

    They spoke quite a bit about the dial-up days, touching on the local
    flavor dial-up BBSes had, told some stories they'd heard about local
    nodes (like the local coffee.net that San Francisco had that brought in non-computer owners into online communities) and touched on some of the qualities of the earlier online experience. What I was reminded of was
    how exclusive BBSing was - you needed a computer, a modem, and then you
    needed to find a way to get your first comms program and find a BBS
    phone number list.

    Of course, no mention of the fact that BBSes persevere to this day. That wouldn't fit the narrative...

    I went with a group of sysops from the day - Dr. Strangelove (Just Say
    Yes), Taipan Enigma (&TOTSE), Zardoz (Burn this Flag) and Destiny,
    someone who I met post-BBSes - but is a part of the post-BBS social
    scene. It was great catching up with them - although we all had places
    to be, kids to pick up from babysitters, work to be done tomorrow, and
    long drives home, didn't end up closing down a bar like we'd done in the
    past.







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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sat Apr 27 10:09:00 2024
    I went to a talk at the Computer History Museum last night titled
    "Dialed In: The Prehistory of Social Media".

    Sounds like a good time overall. Where is this museum?

    Mike


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Sat Apr 27 16:28:22 2024
    Re: Dialed In
    By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sat Apr 27 2024 10:09 am

    I went to a talk at the Computer History Museum last night titled
    "Dialed In: The Prehistory of Social Media".

    Sounds like a good time overall. Where is this museum?

    Mike


    too bad he didn't tell us about it before he went. we could have watched it live together on youtube.
    https://computerhistory.org/events/dialed-in/
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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Sun Apr 28 15:38:00 2024
    too bad he didn't tell us about it before he went. we could have watched it li
    e together on youtube.
    https://computerhistory.org/events/dialed-in/

    :D Good catch!


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  • From Ogg@VERT/CAPCITY2 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Apr 28 20:20:00 2024
    Hello pF!

    ** On Friday 26.04.24 - 07:03, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All:

    I went to a talk at the Computer History Museum last night
    titled "Dialed In: The Prehistory of Social Media".

    [...]

    Of course, no mention of the fact that BBSes persevere to
    this day. That wouldn't fit the narrative...

    The lack of mention of how BBSes are represented today is sad.
    I think people have heard enough of the history. But unlike
    some things from the past that are has-beens and don't carry
    on, BBSes have continued to exist and should be mentioned in
    panels and talks about the technology!


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ogg on Mon Apr 29 00:11:34 2024
    Re: Dialed In
    By: Ogg to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Apr 28 2024 08:20 pm

    Hello pF!

    ** On Friday 26.04.24 - 07:03, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All:

    I went to a talk at the Computer History Museum last night
    titled "Dialed In: The Prehistory of Social Media".

    [...]

    Of course, no mention of the fact that BBSes persevere to
    this day. That wouldn't fit the narrative...

    The lack of mention of how BBSes are represented today is sad.
    I think people have heard enough of the history. But unlike
    some things from the past that are has-beens and don't carry
    on, BBSes have continued to exist and should be mentioned in
    panels and talks about the technology!

    bbses are not perservering. they are pathetic shadows of their former selves. they are not worth mentioning.
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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to MRO on Mon Apr 29 07:43:00 2024
    MRO wrote to Ogg <=-

    The lack of mention of how BBSes are represented today is sad.
    I think people have heard enough of the history. But unlike
    some things from the past that are has-beens and don't carry
    on, BBSes have continued to exist and should be mentioned in
    panels and talks about the technology!

    bbses are not perservering. they are pathetic shadows of their
    former selves. they are not worth mentioning.

    And yet..... here you are.

    A pathetic shadow, not worth mentioning.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Ogg on Mon Apr 29 06:11:00 2024
    Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    The lack of mention of how BBSes are represented today is sad.
    I think people have heard enough of the history. But unlike
    some things from the past that are has-beens and don't carry
    on, BBSes have continued to exist and should be mentioned in
    panels and talks about the technology!

    One of the questions submitted to the panel (not by me, surprisingly)
    was "what about the current BBS scene?". It didn't get asked.



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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Apr 29 10:44:49 2024
    Re: Re: Dialed In
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Ogg on Mon Apr 29 2024 06:11 am

    some things from the past that are has-beens and don't carry
    on, BBSes have continued to exist and should be mentioned in
    panels and talks about the technology!

    One of the questions submitted to the panel (not by me, surprisingly)
    was "what about the current BBS scene?". It didn't get asked.


    that was a poorly written question, i'm not surprised they didn't ask it.

    anyways, you should have told us about it. we could have watched it online.
    it probably sucked anyways. i saw their other videos.
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