How the Modem World Shaped the Internet w/ Kevin Driscoll
Tech Won't Save Us
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The History of the Dilobolon Board System
Many of the systems that we're talking about were things people did for fun, their hobbies, or their, like, just experiments they ran on the side. And so there was no central record keeping organization. So you can't book a research trip to a particular library and then get all the records. However, the record keeping that is being done is being done by former users and enthusiasts. The best known for this kind of material is text files dot com. But more and more, weare seeing not just documents, but also soffware and other kinds of born digital materials that turn up in places like internet archive.
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