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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> 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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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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>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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Hello pF!

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

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

[...]

pF> Of course, no mention of the fact that BBSes persevere to
pF> 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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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:
>
> pF> I went to a talk at the Computer History Museum last night
> pF> titled "Dialed In: The Prehistory of Social Media".
>
> [...]
>
> pF> Of course, no mention of the fact that BBSes persevere to
> pF> 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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-=> 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!

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

And yet..... here you are.

A pathetic shadow, not worth mentioning.

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-=> Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Og> The lack of mention of how BBSes are represented today is sad.
Og> I think people have heard enough of the history. But unlike
Og> some things from the past that are has-beens and don't carry
Og> on, BBSes have continued to exist and should be mentioned in
Og> 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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Re: Re: Dialed In
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Ogg on Mon Apr 29 2024 06:11 am

> Og> some things from the past that are has-beens and don't carry
> Og> on, BBSes have continued to exist and should be mentioned in
> Og> 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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