Podcast: New Models (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Depeche Modem w/ Kevin Driscoll on early net culture (NM44)Pub date: 2022-06-01Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:On the physical — and social — technology that underpinned the DIY side of networked technology’s evolution in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Parallel to institutional network culture were systems ranging from FidoNet to De Digitale Stad (DDS) Netherlands. To map out this early territory is also to ask ourselves what it really means to be 'autonomous' online, and what alternate conceptions of 'the internet' might be possible when we consider the broader origin story of the digital social sphere.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationNM speaks with Kevin Driscoll, author of The Modem World: A Pre-history of Social Media (Yale Univ. Press, 2022), which examines the physical — and social — technology that underpinned the DIY side of networked technology’s evolution in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

Parallel to institutional network culture were the proto-dark-forest communities of BBS networks and other pre-www systems. From FidoNet to De Digitale Stad (DDS) Netherlands, Kevin maps out this early territory, with a brief history of the French Minitel system along the way.

Through his work, Kevin asks us to consider what it really means to be “autonomous” online and what alternate conceptions of “the internet” might be possible when we consider the broader origin story of the digital social sphere.

(Subscriber release: 23 May 2022)

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https://kevindriscoll.info/
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/minitel
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