BS-ing about BBS-es
Alan Levine,
CogDogBlog,
Nov 23, 2020
One comment in Alan Levine's reminiscences about using bulletin board services (BBS) to connect with students in the late 80s and early 90s: "What we discovered was that the journal gave a voice to silenced or marginalized students. For instance, a student who never spoke in class was very active on the journal, contributing over twenty thousand words in one semester." Around the same time, before I launched my own BBS, I was a regular visitor to local BBSs in Edmonton, including the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (AADAC)'s EZoot (see also) and saw (and felt) much the same thing. Levine says, "There was a rich culture of text based technology, not just for communication, but for teaching and learning at Maricopa." This is true, and this pattern was repeated to the furthest reaches of the FidoNet (and the SpiderNet, and IMEXNet, and DriftNet, and WorldNet...).
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