WWWTXT (1980-94) ☺︎

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Net culture and netart books selected from Kyra Ocean's library; arranged on the floor in a grid. (full biblio to be shared in a future post)

↯ ATTN: cyberpunks, electro-girls, techno-phreaks, CRT-junkies, & y2k-headz

Thank you for returning to / joining in this journey through the ancient internet.

Many plans for 2025. Be well & stay jacked in!

xoxo yr fav sysOp,
@kyraocean.bsky.social

Don’t let EVIL KORPORATIONS develop COMMERCIAL hypertext products which could STEAL THE FUTURE. ↯93DEC

I plan to spend Halloween dressed as parts of an operating system. ↯92OCT

Identity is just as useful as it is harmful, and the fluidity of identity on the Internet is one of its most attractive features. ↯93AUG

My friend once folded up a diskette and put it in her pockette. ↯89FEB

Don’t let EVIL KORPORATIONS develop COMMERCIAL hypertext products which could STEAL THE FUTURE. ↯93DEC

We've collectively decided that it's best for our world to go screaming into this new digital era. ↯91FEB

An illustration of a cube constructed from clouds floating in the sky above a grassy meadow.

"SKYBOX" by Ron Cobb. A digital blue sky created with PixelPaint on a Macintosh workstation in 1990.

HI AGAIN. I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT, SOMEONE PICKED UP THE PHONE! ↯92NOV

In 1995, commercialization, digital access, and the multimedia revolution began to shape the modern Internet. 1980–94 represent the final years of a much smaller, non-commercial, and text-dominated Internet.

WWWTXT resurrects real voices from that halcyon era through excerpts from digital archives.