What Was a Sysop?
In short: In the dial-up era, sysops operated bulletin-board systems and took up early moderation practices that, according to the description of historian Kevin Driscoll's work, social media platforms later appropriated.
A 2:12 short film in the series “Being Social Online”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Bulletin-board system | Online Forum, Message Board, Networking | Britannica”; BBS: The Documentary (YouTube upload of Episode 2, 'Sysops and Users'), “BBS The Documentary [Episode 2] | SYSOPS AND USERS - Running And Using A BBS | FULL HD”; Yale University Press, “The Modem World”; Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University, page describing the book The Modem World (Yale University Press, 2022), “The modem world :a prehistory of social media”; Princeton University, Center for Culture, Society, and Religion (Does Not Compute video series, annotated bibliography), “Does Not Compute - The 1980s”; MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing (CMS/W), “Podcast: Kevin Driscoll, "Re-Calling The Modem World: The Dial-Up History Of Social Media"”; Ars Technica, “Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78”.
Sources used in this film
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Bulletin-board system | Online Forum, Message Board, Networking | Britannica · View →
- BBS: The Documentary (YouTube upload of Episode 2, 'Sysops and Users') — BBS The Documentary [Episode 2] | SYSOPS AND USERS - Running And Using A BBS | FULL HD · View →
- Yale University Press — The Modem World · View →
- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University, page describing the book The Modem World (Yale University Press, 2022) — The modem world :a prehistory of social media · View →
- Princeton University, Center for Culture, Society, and Religion (Does Not Compute video series, annotated bibliography) — Does Not Compute - The 1980s · View →
- MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing (CMS/W) — Podcast: Kevin Driscoll, "Re-Calling The Modem World: The Dial-Up History Of Social Media" · View →
- Ars Technica — Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78 · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: www.britannica.com — Bulletin-board system | Online Forum, Message Board, Networking | Britannica
- Also: BBS: The Documentary (YouTube upload of Episode 2, 'Sysops and Users'): BBS The Documentary [Episode 2] | SYSOPS AND USERS - Running And Using A BBS | FULL HD
- Also: Yale University Press: The Modem World
- Also: Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University, page describing the book The Modem Wo: The modem world :a prehistory of social media
- Also: Princeton University, Center for Culture, Society, and Religion (Does Not Compute video series, annotated bibliography): Does Not Compute - The 1980s
- Also: MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing (CMS/W): Podcast: Kevin Driscoll, "Re-Calling The Modem World: The Dial-Up History Of Social Media"
- Also: Ars Technica: Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
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