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Home Computer on the Line. The West German BBS Scene and the Change of Telecommunications in the 1980s

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dc.creatorRöhr, Matthias
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-09T07:27:24Z
dc.date.available2021-07-09T07:27:24Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the phenomenon of bulletin board systems (BBS) – home computers connected through the telephone network – in West Germany in the 1980s. Due to the openness of the US telephone network, the use of home computers as private communication devices became quite successful across the Atlantic. However, in West Germany, this practice conflicted with the state monopoly and its policy on telecommunications. This paper argues that this conflict was part of a structural change caused by the convergence of IT and telecommunications. The West German government saw this convergence as both a threat and a chance for the national IT and telecommunications industries, prompting it to adopt a telecommunications policy designed to challenge the dominant US IT industry.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/8094
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16239
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/17090
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSFB 1187 "Medien der Kooperation" an der Universität Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2567-9104
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMedia in Action. Interdisciplinary Journal on Cooperative Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectGeschichte der Telekommunikationde
dc.subjectGeschichte der Datennetzwerkede
dc.subjectGeschichte digitaler Mediende
dc.subjectBulletin Board-Systemde
dc.subjectComputergeschichtede
dc.subjectHistory of telecommunicationsen
dc.subjectHistory of datanetworksen
dc.subjectHistory of computingen
dc.subjectBulletin board systemsen
dc.subjectHistory of digital mediaen
dc.subject.ddcddc:302.23
dc.titleHome Computer on the Line. The West German BBS Scene and the Change of Telecommunications in the 1980sen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2021-07-12T20:51:05
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/8094
local.source.epage129
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleFundaments of Digitisation
local.source.spage115

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