Internet History

Internet History Turboblack

ASCII art is an art born from limitations

If you've ever written on an 80085 calculator (boobs), or drawn pixel art in a notebook, you've already joined the ranks of these digital painters. But let's start at the beginning: long before computers, people were already creating masterpieces from letters, symbols, and even
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Internet History Devonne Tourre

Finding indie: Carving my path through online connections

Much like other adolescents in the 2010s, I had a hard time making friends in the “real world.” I think back to my teens and say, “Where did I make friends back then?” Sure, I had a handful of friends that I made during school, but that’s the only
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Internet History Serge Keller

Gopher burrows on

I still remember that coffee machine[1]. I recall how we used to stay up in the university computer lab, often until late at night, fascinated in front of its image while immersed in the ghostly glare of some black and white Mac SE/30 screen monitors. We repeatedly refreshed
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Internet History Silverchase

Flash Back: An “oral” history of Flash

I don’t know what the first video game I ever played was. I would have been too young to remember. It very likely could have been a Flash game running in a web browser, patiently downloaded over a dialup connection. I got interested in computers at an early age,
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