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Wired Looks Back At 'Mondo 2000'
destinyland writes: On a day when America looks back on those who came before, Wired is remembering a pioneering technology magazine named Mondo 2000 — and sharing video of its editors' legendary appearance on a mid-90s PBS series, "The Internet Cafe". When its host questioned them about cyberpunk, they turned the interview into an ironic media stunt by providing a live, sneering cyberpunk model named Malice (wearing a fake neural implant on his head), as the words "real cyberpunk" jokingly flashed on the bottom of the screen. "At a time when few people outside academia had access to the internet, Mondo 2000 was many a wannabe hacker's introduction to the online world," Wired remembers fondly, even acknowledging that they'd "borrowed" their own magazine's design motif from Mondo 2000, in those early years before ISPs started popularizing consumer internet access.
I wish someone would scan the copies and make them available on archive.org.
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then wired is for poser cyb3r h1pst3rz?
That summary is useless. I have no idea what it's talking about or trying to say.
What the fuck is the significance of this obscure magazine or whatever it's talking about?
What the fuck is the significance of the TV show?
What the hell is this "sneering cyberpunk model named Malice" stuff even about?
Why the hell is this obscure crap being revived 20 years later?
Why the fuck is a submission as nonsensical and dumb as this one even on Slashdot?
Seriously, that Internet Cafe video is horrid. Did most 90's TV news shows REALLY look that cheesy?
I remember Mondo 2000 as a sort of 2600, Phrack or Blacklisted 411 for liberal arts majors.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
One for the grey beards?
Yeah, but it is webscale?
This is a story about nothing. Either publish the original source or quit babbling!
I had internet at the time, and I remember watching this and thinking "WTF??" But I was so used to technology being depicted so wildly inaccurately in the 90s that it was almost normal. Almost.
Quite possibly.
If it looked anything like an intern had been let loose with an amiga, a genlok, and video toaster - then yes.
If it bad eyesearing visuals that looked somewhat OK on a monitor but then smeared and bled horrifically on what looks like 2nd (if you were lucky) or 3rd gen copy 110 line video with full NTSC effects - then yes.
Mondo 2000. Propaganda (yeah, the artsy-fartsy goth magazine). Lots of technology and satan plus a healthy dosage of Industrial and Punk music. Yeah, I didn't make billions of dollars during the dotcom rush, but at the same time I have enough of a healthy distrust in everyone to recognize the modern CEO/Tech Pundit "talks" are nothing more than cult building.
On the other hand, I kinda wish I had billions of dollars.
If you were me, you'd be good lookin'. - six string samurai
Mondo 2000 during its time helped me want to learn more about the technology culture. It was a cool sort of "dark" magazine. I cherished every copy I could afford at the time.
at the video segment with "Malice" - the token cyberpunk. My favorite line: "Mirror shades and a challenging hairstyle define the cyberpunk look." The only person I would give a pass for dressing like that is Neal Stephenson because, well, you know.
Seriously, my early 90's self would have hyperventilated from laughing so hard had I watched this interview at the time. No wonder the public was so enthralled with the costumes in The Matrix...
I used to enjoy " Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia" before they sold out. "Wired", while not quite as good, started off well before it was taken over by The Man.
If you'd read Mondo 2000 you'd be none the wiser ....
and also is the origin story of hipsters: http://www.electricsheepcomix....
Get off my lawn, noob.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
It's simply a pathetic wistful attempt at revisionist history from a generation that couldn't decide whether to go to mars or smoke dope. Not much has changed. Unless your greek. Then nothing has changed.
Ok, look, it was more like a printed version of facebook without a coniving, theiving punk jewboy in charge. Actually, it was Wozniac's idea of a dream job after he was fucked over by Steve Jobs, who in turn was dumped by Apple like weekend trash at a lobsterfest. I mean, you didn't miss much.
Why the fuck is a submission as nonsensical and dumb as this one even on Slashdot?
Why do your parents let you use the internets without supervision?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I still have my copies.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Stuart Chiefet had the "Computer Chronicles" show on public television stations, which was important to me to see all sorts of different computer technologies in the late 80s early 90s.
Am I the only person here who doesn't like Wired?
I remember back in the mid-to-late 90s when a friend had a subscription. It seemed like bunk to me--full-color glossy pages and a kind of self-congratulatory almost outside-in look at computers and geek culture. My friend (an artist and self-avowed geek) loved the magazine, while I (a programmer) just never got the appeal. I liked the programming magazines that gave code samples!
I can't say I've seen an issue of Wired in probably 10 years, but judging from the Wired blog sites like "GeekDad" it seems to me that it's still full-on geekporn rather than a real technical magazine. I'm quite sure that my experiences 15 years ago have biased me against Wired, but are my impressions at all correct?
Everything about Mondo 2000 was about selling dietary supplements. I M Sirius.
Kenny Boy Goffman aka "R U Sirius" has been the self appointed Court Jester to the psychedelic and transhumanist communities for far too many years. In reality, neither camp has anything in common and Kenny does great damage with his hucksterism and nonsensical gibberish. This crusty old hippy and now goofy shill for techno-fascism needs to shut up for once and for all. He damages what little remains of the potential for a real psychedelic culture with his boosterism for the truly evil transhumanist technocrats who oppose democracy and who cheer-lead for general mechanization and dehumanization. Kenny Boy Goffman, you are truly nothing at all but the Enemy of Relevance and the enemy of what is actually Human. Professor Dale Carrico on his 'Amor Mundi' blog has (with razor wit and insight) completely destroyed the puny intellectual rationalizations and extremely flimsy philosophical foundations of the ridiculous "transhumanist" movement. In particular he more than makes the case that the bones of "transhumanism" are in fact : fascist, plutocratic elitist, sexist, racist and overwhelmingly adolescent ie the worst case of arrested development posing as science and sound thinking ; when it is in fact nothing more than terrible and gratingly naive science fiction which has had the temerity to form a little club for the lost fanboys, nerds and wannabee fascist dictators who live in efficiency apartments and are obsessed with Japanese anime. Some of these greasy manboys are libertarians, they are even more despicable and deluded. Ending death, even if possible, would only for these lads lead to one question : can I really play Dungeons and Dragons until the entropic heat death of the Universe and still remain sexually inexperienced? If Ayn Rand wrote terrible sci fi, that would be "transhumanism." Finally, transhumanists are profoundly anti-democratic and opposed to progressive politics, as their imaginary Robot God is gonna nano up some Cyber Paradise and bring on the Singularity Nerd Rapture (IN LESS THAN 20 YEARS) when we will be 'all watched over by Machines of Loving Grace.' They were saying "less than 20 years" to Machine Utopia back in the late 1980's when the middle brow lunatics Max and Natasha More started all this Extropian E-jacyoolation and Saturday morning kid's cartoon show rolling along on its square, lumpy wheels.
WHY ARE YOU STILL SUPPORTING and FUNDING NEONAZIS, KEN? ANSWER THAT! YOUR GIRLFRIEND RACHEL 'HAYWIRE' MENDELSON IS A SWASTIKA WAVING WHITE NATIONALIST!
Kenny Boy Goffman aka "R U Sirius" has been the self appointed Court Jester to the psychedelic and transhumanist communities for far too many years. In reality, neither camp has anything in common and Kenny does great damage with his hucksterism and nonsensical gibberish. This crusty old hippy and now goofy shill for techno-fascism needs to shut up for once and for all. He damages what little remains of the potential for a real psychedelic culture with his boosterism for the truly evil transhumanist technocrats who oppose democracy and who cheer-lead for general mechanization and dehumanization. Kenny Boy Goffman, you are truly nothing at all but the Enemy of Relevance and the enemy of what is actually Human. Professor Dale Carrico on his 'Amor Mundi' blog has (with razor wit and insight) completely destroyed the puny intellectual rationalizations and extremely flimsy philosophical foundations of the ridiculous "transhumanist" movement. In particular he more than makes the case that the bones of "transhumanism" are in fact : fascist, plutocratic elitist, sexist, racist and overwhelmingly adolescent ie the worst case of arrested development posing as science and sound thinking ; when it is in fact nothing more than terrible and gratingly naive science fiction which has had the temerity to form a little club for the lost fanboys, nerds and wannabee fascist dictators who live in efficiency apartments and are obsessed with Japanese anime. Some of these greasy manboys are libertarians, they are even more despicable and deluded. Ending death, even if possible, would only for these lads lead to one question : can I really play Dungeons and Dragons until the entropic heat death of the Universe and still remain sexually inexperienced? If Ayn Rand wrote terrible sci fi, that would be "transhumanism." Finally, transhumanists are profoundly anti-democratic and opposed to progressive politics, as their imaginary Robot God is gonna nano up some Cyber Paradise and bring on the Singularity Nerd Rapture (IN LESS THAN 20 YEARS) when we will be 'all watched over by Machines of Loving Grace.' They were saying "less than 20 years" to Machine Utopia back in the late 1980's when the middle brow lunatics Max and Natasha More started all this Extropian E-jacyoolation and Saturday morning kid's cartoon show rolling along on its square, lumpy wheels.
WHY ARE YOU STILL SUPPORTING and FUNDING NEONAZIS, KEN? YOUR GIRLFRIEND RACHEL ELLEN 'HAYWIRE' MENDELSON IS A SWASTIKA WAVING WHITE NATIONALIST!
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