usenet, femslash, facial recognition
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tozkaI've been having a lot of fun exploring the "recent things" page! Mostly it's Russian journals (??), but sometimes I find neat people posting cool stuff.
Anyway, some links for your perusal:
Online gay culture and soc.motss: How a Usenet group anticipated how we use Facebook and Twitter today.: "Since the early 1980s, there have been many LGBTQ spaces on the Net: newsgroups, bulletin board systems, or BBSs, mailing lists, social networks, chat rooms, and websites. But the very first LGBTQ Internet space, as far as I’ve been able to find, was the soc.motss newsgroup. And it hosted conversations that had never been seen before online—and that arguably remain in too short supply even today."
-- That led me to finding: MOTSS.CON PICTURE PAGES, a collection of photos from previous soc.motts conventions from 1988-2013.
This academic paper (From Usenet To Gaydar: A Comment On Queer OnlineCommunity) has one of my favorite keywords I've ever found: cyberqueer.
I really liked this quote from a personal website from a former Apple employee: "Most often, people are adding the superfluous graphics to web pages just because they can, not because they've thought through the issues carefully and designed something that will actually improve the presentation. It's a "form versus content" issue - I'm more interested in content than form, as a general rule; "what does it say?", rather than "how does it look?""
And then this showed up due to a type in the search form: the Lucretia Coffin Mott Papers Project. "LCM's letters reflect her regular travels in the mid-nineteenth century throughout the East and Midwest as she addressed various reform organizations such as the Non-Resistance Society, the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women as well as the quarterly and yearly Quaker meetings. Her letters not only express the thoughts of a public figure but they also show the anxieties and joys of a nineteenth-century woman. Forceful and intelligent, her letters also reflect Mott's character and Quaker background."
These links are not from the rabbit hole search:
letzan has been putting together femslash stats each week.
Explore the internet through a recreated WorldWideWeb NeXT browser, circa 1990! h/talisx.
My Shadow Library: A Chinese Author on Book Piracy-- physical books, not electronic!
Speaking of books: LibraryBox is an "open source, portable digital file distribution tool based on inexpensive hardware that enables delivery of educational, healthcare, and other vital information to individuals off the grid."
And finally, a video:
Anyway, some links for your perusal:
Online gay culture and soc.motss: How a Usenet group anticipated how we use Facebook and Twitter today.: "Since the early 1980s, there have been many LGBTQ spaces on the Net: newsgroups, bulletin board systems, or BBSs, mailing lists, social networks, chat rooms, and websites. But the very first LGBTQ Internet space, as far as I’ve been able to find, was the soc.motss newsgroup. And it hosted conversations that had never been seen before online—and that arguably remain in too short supply even today."
-- That led me to finding: MOTSS.CON PICTURE PAGES, a collection of photos from previous soc.motts conventions from 1988-2013.
This academic paper (From Usenet To Gaydar: A Comment On Queer OnlineCommunity) has one of my favorite keywords I've ever found: cyberqueer.
I really liked this quote from a personal website from a former Apple employee: "Most often, people are adding the superfluous graphics to web pages just because they can, not because they've thought through the issues carefully and designed something that will actually improve the presentation. It's a "form versus content" issue - I'm more interested in content than form, as a general rule; "what does it say?", rather than "how does it look?""
And then this showed up due to a type in the search form: the Lucretia Coffin Mott Papers Project. "LCM's letters reflect her regular travels in the mid-nineteenth century throughout the East and Midwest as she addressed various reform organizations such as the Non-Resistance Society, the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women as well as the quarterly and yearly Quaker meetings. Her letters not only express the thoughts of a public figure but they also show the anxieties and joys of a nineteenth-century woman. Forceful and intelligent, her letters also reflect Mott's character and Quaker background."
These links are not from the rabbit hole search:
letzan has been putting together femslash stats each week.Explore the internet through a recreated WorldWideWeb NeXT browser, circa 1990! h/t
alisx.My Shadow Library: A Chinese Author on Book Piracy-- physical books, not electronic!
Speaking of books: LibraryBox is an "open source, portable digital file distribution tool based on inexpensive hardware that enables delivery of educational, healthcare, and other vital information to individuals off the grid."
And finally, a video:
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Date: Aug. 24th, 2019 12:07 am (UTC)