BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: Re: Looking for screensho De: Greek Times Data: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:30:00 +0000 ----------------------------------------------------------- fu> you keep mentioning screenshots as if that was more common than it fu> actually was.. let alone for taking screenshots of something so mundane fu> as boardwatch. You're absolutely right. Taking screenshots in the early 90s wasn't common or straightforward at all. Most people, including myself, weren't sitting there thinking, "I should document this." Especially not for something as routine as a stock vendor board. Totally fair point. That said, it *was* done in some cases. From what I've been seeing flipping through Boardwatch Magazine in the Internet Archive, a lot of the screenshots in those magazines look like they were captured using those old screen capture setups with a camera mounted in front of the monitor. Quality was usually pretty rough. You can see the curvature and glare in some of them. Another method was simply pointing a camera at the screen and hoping for the best. I actually saw a recent example like that posted from Juxtaposition BBS in Montreal. Plain text board, photographed straight off the monitor. Very much do what you can with what you have... And then there were software-based methods. I was watching an old BBS Expo '94 interview with Dennis Fowler from Computer Shopper Magazine . At the 22-minute mark he mentions using a special program specifically to capture BBS screens for review (YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/7hzf9qOVkSM ). So at least in the reviewer world, there were tools floating around for that purpose. So yeah, definitely rare, and definitely not everyday behavior. I'm just curious whether any of those oddball captures survived, especially around those early online magazine experiments. Either way, appreciate the reality check. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64) * Origin: The Montreal Greek Times ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]