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Owczarek, Michał: Interviews with system operators and users of the Polish BBSes [data]. Owczarek, Michał, SWPS University [producer]. Qualitative Data Archive [distributor], Repozytorium Danych Społecznych [publisher], 2025. https://doi.org/10.60894/1VDI0O, V1
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The dataset includes individual interviews with the system operators and users of the Polish BBSes. BBSes were computer servers connected via telephone line. They were used as a social media before the internet, the users were sharing knowledge, software and sense of community in the decentralized fashion. The interviews were conducted from November 2023 to February 2025 with the people engaged in the BBS culture in the 90s. They were recruited mainly thanks to the comparing of archival lists of operators and their contemporary social media profiles. Interviews were anonymized for the purpose of sharing to the repository.
BBS, 90s, social history, creative computing, information technology
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