Prior to the World Wide Web in 1978: The First Computer Bulletin Board System, CBBS Goes Online - Ward Christensen and Randy Suess develop the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) in Chicago. CBBS starts the first online cyberspace community or bulletin board system allowing the general public users of CBBS to post messages there by creating cyberspace to the general public.

"BBS: The Documentary" is a 7 episode series about all aspects of the history of the dial-up Bulletin Board System, or BBS. 3 years in the making and the result of over 200 interviews, this collection puts in one convenient package a sense of the variety and wide-reaching effects of the BBS phenomenon. All in all, over seven and a half hours of material is included across the three region-free DVDs.   More detail...