mediageek 2-4-05: BBS Documentary -- The Pre-History of the Internet

By Anonymous (not verified), 7 February, 2005
Author
Paul Riismandel

Our guest is Jason Scott, the curator behind textfiles.com (http://www.textfiles.com/), an enormous repository of text from electronic bulletin board systems and the pre-web internet, and the filmmaker behind the forthcoming BBS Documentary (http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/).

The mediageek radioshow is a weekly critical look at our media environment, with a focus on independent media and the people who make it.

mediageek originates Fridays at 5:30 on community radio WEFT (http://www.weft.org) in Champaign, IL, and is also aired on KQRP in Salida, CA and KRFP in Moscow, ID. Noncommercial radio stations and webcasters are invited to air the mediageek radioshow. Please let us know if you air it.

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The show is 29:58 minutes.
The first file is the 64kbps broadcast quality mp3

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