hyperreal's Nook of Apocrypha is part of an effort toward the archiving and long-term preservation of any and all digital heritage, obscura, and ideas. #opendirectory #archive #digitalhistory
It’s mostly old computer and gaming magazines at this time.
Yup. I was reading one of them and I was like wow. It kind of makes me wish I had experienced that tech era in the early 90s, but I was only a toddler at the time. Today we have Tildes (https://tildeverse.org/) that try to resemble that old BBS community vibe.
In the first volume of the BBS magazine I have available there, I was surprised with how many women were involved in the BBS scene. There were at least three women who were column authors in that issue and one woman on the BBS development team (they have a photo in the beginning of the issue). I’m sure they had to contend with even worse casual sexism and misogyny in those communities than there is today. Nowadays it seems like more men are aware of the sexism we’ve internalized and are trying to be better.
Yup. I was reading one of them and I was like wow. It kind of makes me wish I had experienced that tech era in the early 90s, but I was only a toddler at the time. Today we have Tildes (https://tildeverse.org/) that try to resemble that old BBS community vibe.
In the first volume of the BBS magazine I have available there, I was surprised with how many women were involved in the BBS scene. There were at least three women who were column authors in that issue and one woman on the BBS development team (they have a photo in the beginning of the issue). I’m sure they had to contend with even worse casual sexism and misogyny in those communities than there is today. Nowadays it seems like more men are aware of the sexism we’ve internalized and are trying to be better.