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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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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.
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
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.
and also is the origin story of hipsters: http://www.electricsheepcomix....
Get off my lawn, noob.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
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?