Wong Kar-wai, BBS ( born 17 July 1958 ) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild ( 1990 ), Ashes of Time ( 1994 ), Chungking Express ( 1994 ), Fallen Angels ( 1995 ), Happy Together ( 1997 ) and 2046 ( 2004 ).

Some of the most popular installations included the highly optimized and fast Blue Board program, and the Color64 BBS System, which allowed the use of Color graphics using the PET-ASCII system.

Beginning in the late 1980s, Gunderloy and Pore also established a substantial online presence on the WELL, an influential, private dial-up BBS.

* SMTH BBS, an influential bulletin board system in China hosted by Tsinghua University

The owner of textfiles. com, Jason Scott, also produced BBS: The Documentary, a DVD film that chronicles the history of the BBS and features interviews with well-known people ( mostly from the United States ) from the heyday BBS era.

The film was released by The Criterion Collection in November 2010 as part of the box set, America Lost and Found: The BBS Story.

It included two audio commentaries, one featuring actor-director-writer Dennis Hopper, the other Hopper, actor-writer Peter Fonda, and production manager Paul Lewis, Born to Be Wild ( 1995 ) and “ Easy Rider ”: Shaking the Cage ( 1999 ), documentaries about the making and history of the film, television excerpts showing Hopper and Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival, and a new video interview with BBS cofounder Steve Blauner.

The film was released on DVD by The Criterion Collection in November 2010 as part of the box set, America Lost and Found: The BBS Story.

The film was released by The Criterion Collection in November 2010 as part of their box set, America Lost and Found: The BBS Story.

* Remorse ASCII artists Necromancer and Killa Hertz both appear in the Artscene episode of the documentary film BBS Documentary by Jason Scott.

BBS: The Documentary, and a 2010 documentary film about interactive fiction, GET LAMP.

Grandmaster Ratte ' as he appears in the film BBS: The Documentary.

In 1987, the Middlesex News ( Framingham, Massachusetts ) launched Fred the Computer, a single-line BBS system used to preview the next day's edition and later to organize the newspaper's past film reviews.

However, the series was suspended from 1996 to 2001 in favour of the similar Sunday Edition with Mike Duffy, a BBS production which aired on most CTV stations and which was ultimately taken over by the network, but was then itself cancelled in 1999.

Initially, the company invested resources in " Baen's Bar ", its online community service that provides a forum for customers, authors and editors to interact, beginning as a BBS.

Cowell stated at a popular BBS convention they named the company as an homage to Asimov and because in his science fiction works US Robotics eventually became " the biggest company in the universe ".

After the CAD code base was sold, he redirected his company toward the BBS and telecommunications markets.

Robinson Technologies is a company founded and run by Seth Robinson in 1989, when he created the BBS door game, Legend of the Red Dragon ( LORD ).

Herb's company Info * share struggled to market this product against the already well established Major BBS product developed by Galacticomm.

Palmer also started a small electronic mail and BBS company called Musicom to enable touring musicians, tour operators and concert promoters to communicate using portable computers and modems over telephone lines.

Software Creations BBS was the bulletin board system ( BBS ) operated by the company, and known for being a popular distribution site for shareware game developers.

The company and BBS were purchased by Total Entertainment Network in September of 1995.

Squish was originally developed by Scott J. Dudley through his company, Lanius Corporation, in conjunction with his Maximus BBS software.

Towards the early 1990s, the BBS industry became so popular that it spawned three monthly magazines, Boardwatch, BBS Magazine, and in Asia and Australia, Chips ' n Bits Magazine which devoted extensive coverage of the software and technology innovations and people behind them, and listings to US and worldwide BBSes.

BBS which had early roots from the Colossus BBS started by the author of the popular shareware communications program Qmodem.

Some popular freeware BBS programs for MS-DOS included Telegard BBS and Renegade BBS, which both had early origins from leaked WWIV BBS source code.

MS-DOS continued to be the most popular operating system for BBS use up until the mid-1990s, and in the early years most multi-node BBSes were running under a DOS based multitasker such as DESQview or consisted of multiple computers connected via a LAN.

However, bulletin board systems ( BBS ) and computer expositions such as Software Creations BBS were the primary distributors of all early low-cost software.

Although poor-quality collections existed at least as far back as the BBS era, the term " shovelware " became commonly used in the early 1990s to describe early CD-ROMs such as collections of shareware or public domain software.

* Some hacker related e-zines, which, like samizdat, were distributed via email and FTP over early Internet links and BBS quoted and developed ideas coming from SI.

An early use of bus rapid transit in New Jersey, a BBS ( bus bypass shoulder ( originally called a BOS or bus on shoulder lane ) has been in operation for many years.

* A very early Trojan Horse designed for the IBM PC called ARF-ARF was downloaded from BBS sites and claimed to “ Sort ” the DOS Diskette Directory.

The cryptic message " Welcome to the Dungeon ", a safeguard and reference to an early programming forum on Dungeon BBS, appeared after a year because the brothers licensed a beta version of the code.

" Arbitrary variation found popularity among adolescent users during the BBS and early WWW eras of online culture, as if in parody of the marginally less idiosyncratic capitalization found in common trade and service marks of the time.

VGA was not intended to be displayed via a BBS and the vast majority of the early works in the IBM PC artscene were distributed as coded executables called " loaders " or " intros " rather than raw bitmap images.

An early example of product activation was in the MS-DOS program D ' Bridge Email System written by Chris Irwin, a commercial network system for BBS users and Fidonet.

Telegard is an early bulletin board system ( BBS ) software program written for IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS and OS / 2.

The characters were also used in early PC games such as early BBS door games, or games like Castle Adventure by Kevin Bales.

Based on influences from Star Trek, Star Wars, and early BBS strategy games, Trade Wars was an early example of the appeal of online games.

With the original 110 and 300 baud modems of the late 1970s, BBSes were particularly slow and file transfers were typically limited to text files ( lists of BBS systems were a common example ) and small software applications, typically terminal programs for accessing BBSes.

Soon after, BBS software was being written for all of the major home computer systems of the late 1970s era-the Apple II, Atari, Commodore and TRS-80 being some of the most popular.

The words first came into popular usage among computer users with the increased popularity of bulletin board systems ( BBS ), facilitated by the widespread distribution and implementation of dial-up internet access in the 1970s.

Although they have been used since the 1970s, a carbon fiber variant has found its way into Formula One when it was used by Scuderia Ferrari whom BBS supply its wheels to.