BBS: The Documentary
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| Directed by | Jason Scott |
| Written by | Jason Scott |
| Produced by | Nicole Sparks |
| Edited by | Jason Scott |
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Running time | 4 hours 58 minutes |
| Language | English |
BBS: The Documentary (commonly referred to as BBS Documentary) is a 3-disc, 8-episode documentary about the subculture born from the creation of the bulletin board system (BBS) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com.
Production work began in July 2001, and completed in December 2004. The finished product began shipping in May 2005.
Although the documentary was released under the Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike 2.0 License and later under 3.0, meaning that anyone can legally download it for free, the author has made it known that the downloadable version is only a fraction of the available material and recommends that individuals purchase the documentary DVDs.