Comments: Cathode Graffiti

Wow! I feel young. I didn't even know they had crack screens in the Apple II days.

Posted by Orin at March 15, 2005 01:28 PM

You kids. In those days a 2400 baud modem meant something. And you know what? We were grateful.

Posted by MGK at March 15, 2005 02:53 PM

Rather odd you should mention these just now ... you haven't looked at this, have you? http://turbulence.org/Works/mystery/games.php#g8

Posted by nick at March 17, 2005 05:12 PM

Nope, but I bet you know why I'm looking at crack screens. Boy do I have a chapter to show you. I'll get you a copy before I come up to Philly. d00d.

Posted by MGK at March 17, 2005 05:36 PM

w00t!

Posted by nick at March 18, 2005 12:37 PM

And suddenly, without warning, MGK's blog is taken over by 1337 5p34k3r5.

It's almost like a Far Side cart00n.

;-)

Posted by Jason at March 21, 2005 11:26 AM

I do really encourage you to take a look at that game, Matt, which I bet is pretty related to your chapter, at least as regards what motivates it. Thanks to Java Web Start, you don't even have to download and run it in order to play it -- just click on "play online" and it'll run, if you have a recent enough Java Runtime Environment installed.

Posted by nick at March 23, 2005 11:40 PM

Matt,

Thanks for sharing this. I think I've seen textfiles.org before, but it really brings back the BBS days for me. I operated a BBS and I think I had many of the same utopian beliefs about the potential for digital space. As I read some of the text files it seems so naive, but it also speaks to the mood and aspiration of the early digital sub-culture.

Duane

Posted by Duane Gran at March 31, 2005 11:17 AM