portyázás a digitális határvidéken
A GIF News-t 1988 és 1993 közt jelent meg, előbb 320*300-as felbontásban később a bámulatos 640*480-ban. A magazin számítógépekről, hardverről-szoftverről szólt 256 színben - az internet mint olyan előtt vagyunk! -, kéthavonta négy lapban.
A magazin utolsó három évének archívumát Jason Scottnak köszönhetően a Flickr-en át lehet nézni, sőt még kiállításmegynyitó-bejegyzés is van hozzá.
Akarom mondani Classic Tandem Stacking, magyar phreak és telekomszakértők sivítsák a pontos magyar szakkifejezést. Most ajándék blueboxozással.
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Rendhagyó módon levelezőlistáról idézünk. Az alábbi írást Gareth Branwyn küldte az American Dialect Society listájára 2002 júliusában.
Good one, Paul. I created the 1991 e-book/catalog Beyond Cyberpunk! (on HyperCard) that covered the various sub-genres of cyberpunk sci-fi and the burgeoning "cyberculture" of the Internet. Some other cyberpunk "micro-genres" of the time: Ribofunk - Created by sci-fi author Paul DeFilippo, ribofunk was sort of an inversion of cyberpunk. Where c-punk focused on the mind, computers, logic, the virtualizing of the human body, ribofunk emphasized the body, bio-technology, the libido, A-life (artificial life), etc. Where cyberpunk's musical muse was punk rock, ribofunk's was funk and soul. Splatterpunk - Took the alienation, dystopian near-futures and amphetimine-fueled prose of c-punk into the horror genre. Chief practitioners were Clive Barker and John Shirley (a.k.a. "cyberpunk patient zero"). Cybergoth - More of a marketing tag than anything else, "cybergoth" was used by Games Workshop to describe their Road Warrior meets Eldritch magick post-apocalyptic game Dark Future (and used in the series of novels that supported it). Some of this "cybergoth" influence lives on in Games Workshop's far-future "gothic sci-fi" game Warhammer 40,000. Freestyle - A shortlived sub-genre of c-punk practiced by then-Bay Area writers Rudy Rucker, Marc Laidlaw, Richard Kadrey and others. Inspired by freestyle surfing and chaos theory (no, really). The idea was to damn all genres and "write like yourself, only moreso." Transrealism - Taking off on the "write like yourself, only moreso" adage of freestyle, Rudy Rucker published his Transrealist Manifesto. It called for combining the intensity of cyberpunk prose and the "fifteen minutes into the future" immediacy of the genre with the anything-goes openess of freestyle and the use of your own life experiences as your muse in writing fiction. Rucker claims that all of his work has become "transrealist." He takes real characters and situations from his life, grossly exaggerates them and projects them into the near future. Rucker says that, eventually, he wants to publish a CD-ROM will all of his novels on it. The reader will be able to click on any passage, in any book, and be linked to Rucker's journals, so one can see what was going on in his real life at that point and how it got mutated into fiction. Re: Steampunk One of the central inspirations of steampunk was Charles Babbage's "Difference Engine," a proposed computational device that many speculate would have worked if the technology had existed at the time to machine the many mechanical parts. So steampunk asks the question: what would have happened to history if computers and the information age had existed concurrently with the industrial revolution of the 19th century? Gar
Paul McFedries wrote: > steampunk (STEEM.punk) n. > > A literary genre that applies science fiction or fantasy elements to > historical settings and that features steam-powered, mechanical > machines rather than electronic devices. Also: steam-punk. > > Arcanum is a prime example of steampunk, a subgenre of science > fiction that explores the displacement of ancient ways by modern > technology. Like Thief, with its steam-powered mechanical robot > guards, Arcanum reconfigures the fantasy genre by imagining a past of > magic and sorcery clashing with a present distinguished by advanced > mechanical technology. > --Charles Herold, "Yielding (or Not) to the Magic of Exotica," The > New York Times, October 4, 2001 > > (...)
További előzményekért irány a levelezőlista archívuma.
Introduction to BlackNet
Your name has come to our attention. We have reason to believe you may be interested in the products and services our new organization, BlackNet, has to offer.
BlackNet is in the business of buying, selling, trading, and otherwise dealing with information in all its many forms.
We buy and sell information using public key cryptosystems with essentially perfect security for our customers. Unless you tell us who you are (please don’t!) or inadvertently reveal information which provides clues, we have no way of identifying you, nor you us.
Our location in physical space is unimportant. Our location in cyberspace is all that matters. Our primary address is the PGP key location: „BlackNet <nowhere@cyberspace.nil>” and we can be contacted (preferably through a chain of anonymous remailers) by encrypting a message to our public key (contained below) and depositing this message in one of the several locations in cyberspace we monitor. Currently, we monitor the following locations: alt.extropians, alt.fan.david-sternlight, and the „Cypherpunks” mailing list.
BlackNet is nominally nondideological, but considers nation-states, export laws, patent laws, national security considerations and the like to be relics of the pre-cyberspace era. Export and patent laws are often used to explicity project national power and imperialist, colonialist state fascism. BlackNet believes it is solely the responsibility of a secret holder to keep that secret—not the responsibilty of the State, or of us, or of anyone else who may come into possession of that secret. If a secret’s worth having, it’s worth protecting.
BlackNet is currently building its information inventory. We are interested in information in the following areas, though any other juicy stuff is always welcome. „If you think it’s valuable, offer it to us first.”
- trade secrets, processes, production methods (esp. in semiconductors)
- nanotechnology and related techniques (esp. the Merkle sleeve bearing)
- chemical manufacturing and rational drug design (esp. fullerines and protein folding)
- new product plans, from children’s toys to cruise missiles (anything on „3DO”?)
- business intelligence, mergers, buyouts, rumors
BlackNet can make anonymous deposits to the bank account of your choice, where local banking laws permit, can mail cash directly (you assume the risk of theft or seizure), or can credit you in „CryptoCredits,” the internal currency of BlackNet (which you then might use to buy _other_ information and have it encrypted to your special public key and posted in public place).
If you are interested, do NOT attempt to contact us directly (you’ll be wasting your time), and do NOT post anything that contains your name, your e-mail address, etc. Rather, compose your message, encrypt it with the public key of BlackNet (included below), and use an anonymous remailer chain of one or more links to post this encrypted, anonymized message in one of the locations listed (more will be added later). Be sure to describe what you are selling, what value you think it has, your payment terms, and, of course, a special public key (NOT the one you use in your ordinary business, of course!) that we can use to get back in touch with you. Then watch the same public spaces for a reply.
(With these remailers, local PGP encryption within the remailers, the use of special public keys, and the public postings of the encrypted messages, a secure, two-way, untraceable, and fully anonymous channel has been opened between the customer and BlackNet. This is the key to BlackNet.)
A more complete tutorial on using BlackNet will soon appear, in plaintext form, in certain locations in cyberspace.
Join us in this revolutionary—and profitable—venture.
BlackNet <nowhere@cyberspace.nil>
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Welcome to the Internet. No one here likes you.
We’re going to offend, insult, abuse, and belittle the living hell out of you. And when you rail against us with „FUCK YOU YOU GEEK WIMP SKATER GOTH LOSER PUNK FAG BITCH!1!!”, we smile to ourselves. We laugh at you because you don’t get it. Then we turn up the heat, hoping to draw more entertainment from your irrational fuming.
We will judge you, and we will find you unworthy. It is a trial by fire, and we won’t even think about turning down the flames until you finally understand.
Some of you are smart enough to realize that, when you go online, it’s like entering a foreign country … and you know better than to ignorantly fuck with the locals. You take the time to listen and think before speaking. You learn, and by learning are gladly welcomed.
For some of you, it takes a while, then one day it all dawns on you - you get it, and are welcomed into the fold.
Some of you give up, and we breathe a sigh of relief - we didn’t want you here anyway. And some of you just never get it. The offensively clueless have a special place in our hearts - as objects of ridicule. We don’t like you, but we do love you.
You will get mad. You will tell us to go to hell, and call us „nerds” and „geeks”. Don’t bother … we already know exactly what we are. And, much like the way hardcore rap has co-opted the word „nigger”, turning an insult around on itself to become a semiserious badge of honor, so have we done.
„How dare you! I used to beat the crap out of punks like you in high school/college!” You may have owned the playing field because you were an athlete. You may have owned the student council because you were more popular. You may have owned the hallways and sidewalks because you were big and intimidating. Well, welcome to our world.
Things like athleticism, popularity, and physical prowess mean nothing here. We place no value on them … or what car you drive, the size of your bank account, what you do for a living or where you went to school.
Allow us to introduce you to the concept of a „meritocracy” - the closest thing to a form of self-government we have. In The United Meritocratic nation-states of the Internet, those who can do, rule. Those who wish to rule, learn. Everyone else watches from the stands.
You may posses everything in the off-line world. We don’t care. You come to the Internet penniless, lacking the only thing of real value here: knowledge.
„Who cares? The Internet isn’t real anyway!” This attitude is universally unacceptable. The Internet is real. Real people live behind those handles and screen names. Real machines allow it to exist. It’s real enough to change government policy, real enough to feed the world’s hungry, and even, for some of us, real enough to earn us a paycheck. Using your own definition, how „real” is your job? Your stock portfolio? Your political party? What is the meaning of „real”, anyway?
Do I sound arrogant? Sure … to you. Because you probably don’t get it yet.
If you insist on staying, then, at the very least, follow this advice:
1) No one, ESPECIALLY YOU, will make any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
2) Use your brain before ever putting fingers to keys.
3) Do you want a picture of you getting anally raped by Bill Clinton while you’re performing oral sex on a cow saved to hundreds of thousands of people’s hard drives? No? Then don’t put your fucking picture on the Internet. We can, will, and probably already HAVE altered it in awful ways. Expect it to show up on an equally offensive website.
4) Realize that you are never, EVER going to get that, or any other, offensive web page taken down. Those of us who run those sites LIVE to piss off people like you. Those of us who don’t run those sites sometimes visit them just to read the hatemail from fools like you.
5) Oh, you say you’re going to a lawyer? Be prepared for us to giggle with girlish delight, and for your lawyer to laugh in your face after he explains current copyright and parody law.
6) The Web is not the Internet. Stop referring to it that way.
7) We have already received the e-mail you are about to forward to us. Shut up.
8) Don’t reply to spam. You are not going to be „unsubscribed”.
9) Don’t ever use the term „cyberspace” (only William Gibson gets to say that, and even he hasn’t really used it for two or three books now). Likewise, you prove yourself a marketing-hype victim if you ever use the term „surfing”.
10) With one or two notable exceptions, chat rooms will not get you laid.
11) It’s a hoax, not a virus warning.
12) The internet is made up of thousands of computers, all connected but owned by different people. Learn how to use *your* computer before attempting to connect it to someone else’s.
13) The first person who offers to help you is really just trying to fuck with you for entertainment. So is the second. And the third. And me.
14) Never insult someone who’s been active in any group longer than you have. You may as well paint a damn target on your back.
15) Never get comfortable and arrogant behind your supposed mask of anonymity. Don’t be surprised when your name, address, and home phone number get thrown back in your smug face. Hell, some of us will snail-mail you a printed satellite photograph of your house to drive the point home. Realize that you are powerless if this happens … it’s all public information, and information is our stock and trade.
16) No one thinks you are as cool as you think you are.
17) You aren’t going to win any argument that you start.
18) If you’re on AOL, don’t worry about anything I’ve said here. You’re already a fucking laughing stock, and there’s no hope for you.
19) If you can’t take a joke, immediately sell your computer to someone who can. RIGHT NOW.
Pissed off? It’s the truth, not these words, that hurts your feelings. Don’t ever even pretend like I’ve gone & hurt them.
We don’t like you. We don’t want you here. We never will. Save us all the trouble and go away.
This page is a mirror of the original, posted at Deeplight.Net. It was written by Robert „redpaw” Jung, Webmaster, managing editor, chief techmonkey of Deeplight.
Mint a fontosabb klasszikus szövegekből, ebből is van magyar verzió.
