Open Transcripts

Nostalgia for the Net: Georgina Voss

presented by Georgina Voss

LiveJournal I think gave a lot— It certainly gave me my training wheels for how to engage other bits of social space. We…people I know on LJ, I think we learnt quite quickly (or probably some not as quickly as we should’ve done) where the limits of sharing and oversharing are.

Nostalgia for the Net: Douglas Rushkoff

presented by Douglas Rushkoff

It was this big responsive thing. Now it’s like…asking me shit. It’s just pinging me and buzzing me. Instead of working in that great asynchronous waiting pause, it’s this always-on assault.

Nostalgia for the Net: Debbie Chachra

presented by Deb Chachra

For a while, I would go to bed at the normal time for like a 12 year-old, and then I would wake up at three o’clock in the morning, head downstairs, plug in the modem, dial into one of these BBSes, and spend a couple of hours chatting with strangers, before packing it up around five AM and going back to bed.

Nostalgia for the Net: Deanna Zandt

presented by Deanna Zandt

A bunch of us met up on New Year’s Eve 1996 at the show at Roseland in New York. And you know, it was so hard for me to explain to people that I was going to go meet people from the Internet and no they weren’t going to murder me, you know.

Nostalgia for the Net: CW Anderson

presented by CW Anderson

My little stupid home page or whatever was limited by my lack of skill. It wasn’t as dynamic or as interesting or as exciting as Facebook is. But I made it. You know what I mean? Like I made it myself.

Nostalgia for the Net: Andy Baio

presented by Andy Baio

I had no idea what it was. You know like… Nobody could tell you what the Internet was, you had to experience it for yourself. And I was reading things like like Zen and the Art of the Internet trying to piece together what does the—what is this thing?

Nostalgia for the Net: Aaron Straup Cope

presented by Aaron Straup Cope

It was hard to get a sense of…the size or the scope of it, because you were just looking at essentially…like a typed mimeograph on a screen, and you were like…okay, what’s the big deal?

Persons of Consequence

presented by Luca De Biase

New technologies open possibilities, and close other possibilities. We live in eco-technical niches as anybody else in the world, but we create our niches and we change them. So we adapt to the niches that we already have built in the past, and then we change them and create new niches in which we will adapt. But the changing is exactly what we need to understand.

Knit One, Compute One

presented by Kris Howard

The very first line of any knitting pattern looks something like this, “Cast on 24 stitches.” And that means to create that initial row of loops on the needle. Well I looked at that and my brain immediately recognized well that’s just a for loop.

Apocalypse!!!!! How Not to be An Idiot Designing Climate Futures

presented by Juli Sikorska

We really seem to indulge in dystopian thinking. And we love it. And I really wonder why that happens. I don’t know how you feel about this, but it really stresses me out. And it kind of bothers me that it’s still a lot of times easier to imagine the end of the world than how we could live on a sustainable planet.