<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, you’re in trouble. You don’t really know
how to follow it; you’re 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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