Nostalgia for the Net at Hyperallergic HQ
Please join Melissa Gira Grant and Joanne McNeil for an evening of personal stories about the Internet of long ago. The years of BBS, IRC, ICQ, MUDs, Mosaic, Usenet, Fidonet, Telnet, dot matrix printers, 28.8k modems, and saving those AOL startup disks until they broke in two.
With special guests:
Katie Baker (Deadspin, katiebakes.tumblr.com)
Katie Baker shares the lies she told and the trouble she caused on hockey Usenet boards from her high school dorm room in the late ’90’s.
Eric Mortensen (blip.tv, weareheretogo.com)
After managing multiple BBSes and running the local BBS phone number list, Eric Mortensen wanted Internet. He would do anything to get some. In a farm town in the mid 1990’s, that was no small task.
RSVP now as space is very limited.
What: Nostalgia for the Net: An Evening of Personal Stories
When: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 7pm EST
Where: Hyperallergic HQ, 181 N 11th Street, #302 at Driggs Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 (Williamsburg) — Foursquare — Google Maps — Mapquest
Stop having cool events without me! Am half-way considering finding a last minute cheap ticket and flying over for this.
I think the CSS style of this website is a bit too modern for this meetup so I FIFY 😉 : http://bit.ly/fvjj6p