BBS history at Ars Technica

January 23rd, 2014 by markku

See here for an article with Lee Hutchinson’s personal recollections of the little documented American BBS scene: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/modems-warez-and-ansi-art-remembering-bbs-life-at-2400bps/

Scene letters

January 2nd, 2014 by markku

An interesting collection of letters written by swappers: http://www.sceneletters.com/

Terrible Nerd

December 31st, 2013 by markku

Eh, somehow I had forgotten to add Kevin Savetz’s biography Terrible Nerd to the bibliograpgy. Well, now I did 🙂

Commodork online

December 31st, 2013 by markku

Commodork: Sordid Tales from a BBS Junkie by Rob O’Hara is available on Scribd right here.

Wasiak on dealer demos

December 15th, 2013 by markku

Patryk Wasiak’s article Computer Dealer Demos: Selling Home Computers with Bouncing Balls and Animated Logos was just published in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Good stuff! 🙂

Hastik goes CERC’13

December 10th, 2013 by markku

One more paper from hard-working Canan Hastik: Preventing Digital Subcultures from becoming Victims of the Technological Change, published at CERC’13. Added a researcher entry for her, too.

Peeters’ article republished

December 10th, 2013 by markku

Stijn Peeters’ article The Beauty of the Byte has been published in NEWMEDIA_studies magazine issue 7. Updated the bibliography accordingly.

C64-related MA thesis

November 22nd, 2013 by markku

Added Walter Karila’s MA thesis Pulppuavan saundin kovassa ytimessä: Commodore 64 -kulttuurin symbolinen rakentuminen Lemon64-internetsivuston keskusteluforumilla (2013).

Demos in magazines

September 4th, 2013 by markku

Some demoscene articles from game/tech magazines added, thanks to Dan Wright.

An article on retro (game) music

August 23rd, 2013 by markku

Added to Related publications: Katsaus retropelikonemusiikin maailmaan by Esa Hakkarainen.