Net as social platform shaped it in the interplay of military, scientific, entrepreneurial, activist, artistic, and altruistic agendas | art historian Claire Bishop: “[A]ctivation; authorship; community — are the most frequently cited motivations for almost all artistic attempts to encourage participation in art since the 1960s” | Baran demonstrated that sections of a distributed network could be destroyed while the message would still reach its destination | US government, for example, preferred another protocol but TCP/IP was non-proprietary | At a time when hippies dominated the campus, the first machine arrived at UCLA in a military, fridge-sized container, moveable by helicopter | 70 wireless network @Hawaii | 72 email @BBN co Boston | 77 mailing list @ARPANET | 78 BBS @Chicago | 78 USENET @North Carolina uni’s | 81 IBM PC+mouse | 81 BITNET flat fee | 85 community BBS: The Well @CA in order to experience communal living without actually having to move into a community | 84 Lyotard and Chaput @Les Immateriaux were mainly interested in the way, in which this collaborative writing changed the experience of the act of writing itself | 88 IRC | 89 Berners-Lee described WWW “as an altruistic, non-proprietary, vendor-neutral contribution to society” | 94 CERN convened 1st web conference in Geneva, so well attended that not even CERN employees could get in, later called Woodstock of the Web | 93 De Digitale Stad | 94 weblog Links from the Underground, about his most intimate experiences, incl. delicate details about his (girl)friends | 94 Nettime | 95 Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron describes Californian Ideology as it simultaneously reflects “the disciplines of market economics and the freedoms of hippie artisanship” | Silicon Valley weas responsible for 13% of the new American jobs created between 1996 and 2000 | years after the dotcom crash, the parking lots of Silicon Valley were empty | 00s rapid growth of niche communities and self-help groups
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