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WWWTXT (1980-94) ☺︎

@wwwtxt.bsky.social

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Revisit the early Internet with real online conversations (1980-94) ⟨hand-selected вy @kyraocean.bsky.social⟩ patreon.com/wwwtxt ↯ wwwtxt.org

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WWWTXT (1980-94) ☺︎ @wwwtxt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

↯ ATTN: cyberpunks, electro-girls, techno-phreaks, CRT-junkies, & y2k-headz Thank you for returning to / joining in this journey through the ancient internet. Many plans for 2025. Be well & stay jacked in! xoxo yr fav sysOp, @kyraocean.bsky.social

Net culture and netart books selected from Kyra Ocean's library; arranged on the floor in a grid.

(full biblio to be shared in a future post)

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WWWTXT (1980-94) ☺︎ @wwwtxt.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Don’t let EVIL KORPORATIONS develop COMMERCIAL hypertext products which could STEAL THE FUTURE. ↯93DEC

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WWWTXT (1980-94) ☺︎ @wwwtxt.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

I plan to spend Halloween dressed as parts of an operating system. ↯92OCT

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WWWTXT (1980-94) ☺︎ @wwwtxt.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Identity is just as useful as it is harmful, and the fluidity of identity on the Internet is one of its most attractive features. ↯93AUG

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WWWTXT (1980-94) ☺︎ @wwwtxt.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

My friend once folded up a diskette and put it in her pockette. ↯89FEB

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WWWTXT (1980-94) ☺︎ @wwwtxt.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Don’t let EVIL KORPORATIONS develop COMMERCIAL hypertext products which could STEAL THE FUTURE. ↯93DEC

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WWWTXT (1980-94) ☺︎ @wwwtxt.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

We've collectively decided that it's best for our world to go screaming into this new digital era. ↯91FEB

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WWWTXT (1980-94) ☺︎ @wwwtxt.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

"SKYBOX" by Ron Cobb. A digital blue sky created with PixelPaint on a Macintosh workstation in 1990.

An illustration of a cube constructed from clouds floating in the sky above a grassy meadow.

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WWWTXT (1980-94) ☺︎ @wwwtxt.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

HI AGAIN. I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT, SOMEONE PICKED UP THE PHONE! ↯92NOV

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WWWTXT (1980-94) ☺︎ @wwwtxt.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

In 1995, commercialization, digital access, and the multimedia revolution began to shape the modern Internet. 1980–94 represent the final years of a much smaller, non-commercial, and text-dominated Internet. WWWTXT resurrects real voices from that halcyon era through excerpts from digital archives.

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