Thank YOU for posting about the documentary, I had no idea it existed! I love it! My story about the BBS was that I just happened to be paying attention at the

Thank YOU for posting about the documentary, I had no idea it existed! I love it! My story about the BBS was that I just happened to be paying attention at the right time, and the right moment, which for an ADHD kid in the 80s was pretty damn amazing. On December 26, 1993, the PBS TV show Ghostwriter aired an episode entitled "Who is Max Mouse?" - which also starred Samuel L. Jackson. In that episode, a kid explains that his computer can use a modem to connect to their school's bulletin board system. Max Mouse was a hacker that was suddenly causing trouble on their BBS! Very shortly after that, as I was sitting in 7th grade literature, an announcement was made by our student news team via the in-classroom television; by the way, having a full time television in the classroom was still new at the time. Students were invited to call the school's bulletin board system with their computer, and a phone number was provided. I scribbled it down on notepaper. Since I had just seen Ghostwriter on this very thing, I knew precisely what that meant. My father setup the monochrome 286 and we dialed in at a screaming 2400 bits per second. It was all orange, it was slow, but it was absolute magic. I became obsessed with Usurper and other "Door Games." From there I used BBS's for many years until AOL, then Netcom, and the broader high speed web. One more thing: If there's a guy in India named Anish Nanda who posted to FIDONET about visiting America in the 90s, and wanted recommendations... You were the very first international message I responded to and I have never forgotten it.