Original upload date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 18:21:04 GMT
Short documentary about the geeks who created Slashdot.org, Everything2.com and Perlmonks.org. Made by Michael Stevenson in 2019 as part of the Dutch research council funded project 'The Web that Was'
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(project 275-45-006). Read on for music credits and related links.
Read more about the documentary here: https://opensource.com/article/19/9/geeks-cyberspace
Like the music? Check out these great artists:
Men of Mega: https://menofmega.bandcamp.com
ComputeHer: https://computeher.com
Bit Shifter: https://bit-shifter.bandcamp.com
Ben Prunty: https://benprunty.bandcamp.com
Stevia Sphere: https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com
Komiku (Monplaisir) https://chezmonplaisir.bandcamp.com
Argofox: https://soundcloud.com/argofox
DC Turner: https://mrdcturner.myportfolio.com
Parquet Courts: https://parquetcourts.wordpress.com
Want to know more about the history of these sites?
CmdrTaco on Slashdot's 20th anniversary: https://medium.com/free-code-camp/a-pre-history-of-slashdot-6403341dabae
CmdrTaco's 'brief history of Slashdot'
Part 1: https://news.slashdot.org/story/07/10/02/1553218/a-brief-history-of-slashdot-part-1-chips-dips
Part 2: https://news.slashdot.org/story/07/10/10/1445216/a-brief-history-of-slashdot-part-2-explosions
Part 3: https://slashdot.org/story/07/10/17/1412245/history-of-slashdot-part-3--going-corporate
My chapter on Slashdot from the second edition of New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (eds. Chun, Watkins Fisher, Keenan): https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:16613/
Everything2's 10th anniversary interviews: https://everything2.com/title/Everything2+Decaversary+Interviews
I don't know of any historical articles about PerlMonks, but Perl geeks may be interested in my article about Larry Wall and the history of Perl: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2018.1495810