BBSes
Posted on December 6, 2010 by Jingles | 1 Comment
A little while ago I wrote about the web not being the net. I don’t think a lot of normal people, i.e. non geeks would know what the internet is. Most people tend to think the World Wide Web is the Internet. But it’s not as I explained in my The WWW is not the internet! post.
Wow the internet without the web? Huh? What? How? Buliten Board Systems is what and how. BBSes as they became known were one of the first mass used services on the internet before the internet went commercial. Hundreds and thousands of people used them, and there are even still some alive today if you are interested check out The BBS Corner’s Telnet BBS Guide, The BBS-scene and Synchronet’s BBS for some BBS software and a list of BBSes..
If you are interested and really Geeky, like me, then you will enjoy BBS the Documentary. A documentary about the history of BBSes. Checkout G4tv – Pulse on BBS The Documentary:
The best thing about BBS the Documentary is that it is released under creative commons so you can download it for free!
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December 9th, 2010 @ 11:33 pm
If you are interested in digital art, music and realtime animation you should check out the bbs associated scenes.
A tube collection of new and old demoscene graphics demos can be viewed at:
http://www.demoscene.tv
Want to run the demos yourself in realtime?
http://www.scene.org
For samplebased tracker music scene.. check out
http://www.modarchive.com
(features an online java MOD player for ease of browsing)
Farbrausch is a German demogroup who were the king of procedural demos. They made some 8 mins of mindblowing 3D and full sequenced music all in 64k. This demo was called the.product. You can download their tools and make your own smart gfx! Awesome!
Check out the ansi/ascii artwork from the two leading groups of the time. iCE and ACiD. I was a VGA artist for acid around 1998-99 as dvandenberg.
http://www.acid.org/100/eternal.html
1/2 Bit Cheese, is unreal for non-procedural 3D eyecandy.
http://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=10084&o…
Pouet is also a good source. (refresh page and see heaps of Pouet logos)
Kosmic Free Music Foundation (KFMF) was a large and popular music tracking group. scene.org.
If you are want to see the huge range of TEXT files that past through bbss back in the day with no limits of content. Check out:
http://www.textfiles.com
Known as DEV, I co-founded an Australian music/art group in 1998 called Flange. The packs can be downloaded from:
http://www.flangemusic.org
Have fun!
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