Wired Looks Back At 'Mondo 2000'

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 5, 2015 @07:59AM from the blast-from-the-past dept.

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.

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Can somebody explain what the fuck this is about? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-07-05 08:15 · Score: 0, Insightful

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?