BBS: The Documentary has finally shipped! The creator, Jason Scott, travelled roughly 20,000 miles by plane and car through 25 states and one province, and interviewed 200 people. He recorded roughly 247 hours of interviews, with the shortest at 5 minutes and the longest at 5 hours. At no point did he despair, except when the police towed his rental car away in Oregon.

While over 500 people signed up for interviews, he could only see less than half of them. However, I think I have a very solid sample of the types of folks who were involved with BBSes and between all the hours, a real complete story starts to emerge.

The Web site has the entire photo album from all 200 interviews up. It also has trailers and other downloadable stuff.

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