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On 04/10/13 01:41 AM, Simon Biggs wrote: > To my knowledge the internet has existed as long as we have had the internet protocol. That's since 1982, but commercial access to the Internet didn't become popular until the late 1980s. > People tell me the work I was doing in the 70's and 80's must have > been amongst the earliest examples of digital art. However, I was not > a pioneer but a third generation artist in the field, with the first > generation emerging in the 1950's and the second in the late 60's and > early 70's. I was very aware at that time of these earlier examples > and took much inspiration from them. This raises the question of what *was* the first art to be sent over the net (and its companion question, what was the first discussion of it online? :-) ). I believe a Harold Cohen drawing was sent from California to London when Imperial College connected to the Arpanet, for example. > Memory is short and the published histories are often seriously > wrong. Yes. I've been very impressed with CAS's work on British art computing history, which tallies with the gossip I heard in the 90s. > These historical discussions are always interesting as > overlooked pieces of the story are put into the public sphere. Definitely!