Great exchange!
Dennis, you make me think of this document to which I go back quite often
to understand the/a departure point
http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html
I love to read about each one experience. Filling in some gaps, as I was
away touring end of 80ies (without dial up possibilities!)
and then in India early 90ies until I arrived in Australia in 96.
Cheers
Suzon
Make & Share about Water
Waterwheel http://water-wheel.net
On 7/10/13 4:47 AM, "Dennis Moser" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
><Putting on the NOMEX suit>
>
>The Internet is not JUST the "world wide web" that we all love so much. In
>1985, all those entities that we dialed into WERE the Internet.
>
>Sure, 1993 (the year that MOSAIC began to appear on everyone's horizon,
>marks the beginning of what we think of as the Internet, but the networks
>underlying what made that possible had been in place for some time
>already.
>
>Compuserve (remember them? One of the OTHER dialup services?) was quite
>widely used at that time, having been created in 1969.
>
>Just a quiet reminder ...
>
>Best to all,
>
>Dennis
>
>
>~~
>If your first move is brilliant, youčre in trouble. You dončt really know
>how to follow it; youčre frightened of ruining it. So, to make a mess is a
>good beginning. Brian Eno
>
>
>On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Charlotte Frost
><[log in to unmask]
>> wrote:
>
>> In 1985, there was no Internet and the WELL was available via dial-up.
>>It
>> was text only. No graphics. No color. There was a conference on the WELL
>> called ARTCOM (the name art.com <http://art.com> has subsequently used
>>by
>> others, as well as "artcom," but the artcom account on the WELL was the
>> first. We did a lot of conceptual art in Artcom. For example, we posted
>> short messages each day we called "Status Reports" that was very much
>>like
>> Twitter, but of course preceded it by more than 20 years. We developed
>> conventions and games. One of the games was Das Casino in which we
>> pretended
>> we were in a casino. That led to creating a benefit party (the WELL was
>> quite poor and needed help upgrading its server) in which we ran a real
>> casino at the Artcom studios. We even had a show with a chorus line. I
>>have
>> cced Freddy Hahne who can provide more details.
>>
>> A media artist, Judy Malloy, did at least two conceptual art pieces
>>using
>> the WELL, "Uncle Roger" and "Badinfo." I have cced Judy Malloy, who can
>> tell
>> you more.
>>
>> In 1994, I put scans of my painting on the Internet via the WELL's
>>member
>> pages, and in 1995 I moved them to my own website at
>> http://www.rheingold.com/art . My art is still on exhibit there:
>> http://rheingold.com/art-gallery/
>>
>>
>> Howard Rheingold
>> http://www.rheingold.com
>> what it is ---> is --->up to us
>>
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