Tag: data
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Joe Reiss, creator of the “Spoiler-Free Opinion Summary”
In 1992, Joe Reiss began the Spoiler-Free Opinion Summary, an effort to collect ratings for each week’s episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” from fans on Usenet. The “S.O.S.” caught on and remained popular for years, moving to the web in 1995. Ultimately, Reiss collected nearly 300,000 individual ratings.
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Trade Wars vs. Legend of the Red Dragon: Which was the most popular?
When I was on the Bobby Blackwolf Show in February, we discussed TradeWars 2002 and Legend of the Red Dragon. Early in our back and forth on LoRD, I said: “It became… you know, depending on who you talk to, probably the number one or number two game out of BBSes.” Blackwolf followed up by…
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Visualizing 314: The directories, the data, and the caveats
This is the final part of a three-part series. In this post I’m going to discuss Fire Escape’s BBS directory formats, the directory parser and the dataset; I’ll also give some caveats about this data.
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Visualizing 314: The St. Louis scene in charts
This is the second part of a three-part series. It’s chart time! In this post you can explore several graphs that show facets of the St. Louis BBS scene.
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Visualizing 314: Fire Escape’s BBS Directory
This is the first part of a three-part series. If there was a superstar of St. Louis BBSes during the 1990s, it had to be Fire Escape.
