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  1. Blast from the past!

    Here's a vintage recording from the @2600 Voice BBS (c. 1990s) featuring details on the Manchester meetup at the iconic Cyberia Internet Cafe on Oxford Road.

    (Also includes details on Bristol and London meetings).

    #2600 #BBS #RetroComputing #Manchester #HackerHistory #Cyberia

  2. Web pioneer Cath Le Couteur on digital utopias, closing Shooting People, film collectives & the future.

    > "I'm not an anti-tech person. Shooters was built on technology. But I am mindful that we want technology that doesn't extract, technology that enables people." Long before social networks and smart phones in the mid-90s, Cath entered the world's first cyber-cafe in Soho, London to message a cyber-girlfriend in Australia. There she met Cyberia's founder Eva Pascoe, and joined the woman-owned company that shaped the early-90s UK web-scene. Next she went to BBC Online, still a quirky start-up at the BBC figuring out How To Internet, befriended the late Jess Search who started producing her films. Using London Filmmakers Coop to borrow their kit they have a Big Idea – what if the film coop culture of filmmakers helping each other, met the Usenet lists, forums and chat-rooms Cath encountered at Cyberia? So together they founded Shooting People in 1998, a daily email bulletin running on GNU Mailman. It began with 60 email addresses and grew…

    25.netribution.co.uk/nic/cath-

  3. "Virtually the second we opened, we had three lines deep around the block. [...] If you wanted to collect your emails, we were the only place in town."

    vice.com/en/article/worlds-fir

    #internet #TheWeb #history #InternetCafe #cyberia

  4. "Virtually the second we opened, we had three lines deep around the block. [...] If you wanted to collect your emails, we were the only place in town."

    vice.com/en/article/worlds-fir

    #internet #TheWeb #history #InternetCafe #cyberia

  5. "Virtually the second we opened, we had three lines deep around the block. [...] If you wanted to collect your emails, we were the only place in town."

    vice.com/en/article/worlds-fir

    #internet #TheWeb #history #InternetCafe #cyberia

  6. "Virtually the second we opened, we had three lines deep around the block. [...] If you wanted to collect your emails, we were the only place in town."

    vice.com/en/article/worlds-fir

    #internet #TheWeb #history #InternetCafe #cyberia

  7. "Virtually the second we opened, we had three lines deep around the block. [...] If you wanted to collect your emails, we were the only place in town."

    vice.com/en/article/worlds-fir

    #internet #TheWeb #history #InternetCafe #cyberia