- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
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1 The Origins of Social Media -
2 The Personal Computer and Social Media -
3 Daily Life in Cyberspace: How the Computerized Counterculture Built a New Kind of Place -
4 Community Memory: The First Public-Access Social Media System -
5 PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community -
6 alt.hypertext: An Early Social Medium -
7 Dictation: A Canadian Perspective on the History of Telematic Art -
8 Art and Minitel in France in the 1980s -
9 Rescension and Precedential Media -
10 Defining the Image as Place: A Conversation with Kit Galloway, Sherrie Rabinowitz, and Gene Youngblood -
11 IN.S.OMNIA, 1983–1993 -
12 Art Com Electronic Network: A Conversation with Fred Truck and Anna Couey -
13 System X: Interview with Founding Sysop Scot McPhee -
14 In Search of Identities in the Digital Humanities: The Early History of Humanist -
15 Echo -
16 MOOs and Participatory Media -
17 Hacking the Voice of the Shuttle: The Growth and Death of a Boundary Object -
18 Community Networking: The Native American Telecommunications Continuum -
19 The Art of Tele-Community Development: The Telluride Infozone -
20 Community Networking, an Evolution -
21 Cultures in Cyberspace: Communications System Design as Social Sculpture -
22 Crossing-Over of Art History and Media History in the Times of the Early Internet—with Special Regard to THE THING NYC -
23 Arts Wire: The Nonprofit Arts Online -
24 Electronic Literature Organization Chats on LinguaMOO -
25 trAce Online Writing Centre, Nottingham Trent University, UK -
26 Pseudo Space: Experiments with Avatarism and Telematic Performance in Social Media - A Conversation and Two Epilogues
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27 Expanding on “What Is the Social in Social Media?”: A Conversation with Geert Lovink -
28 Epilogue: Slow Machines and Utopian Dreams -
29 From Archaeology to Architecture: Building a Place for Noncommercial Culture Online - About the Authors
- Index
Community Memory: The First Public-Access Social Media System
Community Memory: The First Public-Access Social Media System
- Chapter:
- (p.89) 4 Community Memory: The First Public-Access Social Media System
- Source:
- Social Media Archeology and Poetics
- Author(s):
Lee Felsenstein
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
Community Memory was the first public-access social media system, opening without advance notice on August 8, 1973 in Berkeley, California. Designed and programmed by members of a nonprofit company established to bring the power of computers to the counterculture, it ran on a mainframe computer and was well received by those who tried it. This chapter discusses the history of the project, contributions of some of its members, and ways in which it succeeded and ultimately failed to sustain itself. Pre-dating the personal computer, it was designed to provide terminals that nucleated neighborhood information-exchange points. Community Memory spun out from its parent organization, Resource One, Inc. to form its own nonprofit -- The Community Memory Project -- in 1977. The design underwent three generations, culminating in a network of text-based browsers running on basic IBM PCs accessing a Unix server. It was never connected to the Internet, and closed in 1992.
Keywords: Community Memory, Social Media - History, Social Media - Public Access, Social Media - Counterculture, Social Media - Nonprofit, Neighborhood Information Systems - Berkeley
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
-
1 The Origins of Social Media -
2 The Personal Computer and Social Media -
3 Daily Life in Cyberspace: How the Computerized Counterculture Built a New Kind of Place -
4 Community Memory: The First Public-Access Social Media System -
5 PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community -
6 alt.hypertext: An Early Social Medium -
7 Dictation: A Canadian Perspective on the History of Telematic Art -
8 Art and Minitel in France in the 1980s -
9 Rescension and Precedential Media -
10 Defining the Image as Place: A Conversation with Kit Galloway, Sherrie Rabinowitz, and Gene Youngblood -
11 IN.S.OMNIA, 1983–1993 -
12 Art Com Electronic Network: A Conversation with Fred Truck and Anna Couey -
13 System X: Interview with Founding Sysop Scot McPhee -
14 In Search of Identities in the Digital Humanities: The Early History of Humanist -
15 Echo -
16 MOOs and Participatory Media -
17 Hacking the Voice of the Shuttle: The Growth and Death of a Boundary Object -
18 Community Networking: The Native American Telecommunications Continuum -
19 The Art of Tele-Community Development: The Telluride Infozone -
20 Community Networking, an Evolution -
21 Cultures in Cyberspace: Communications System Design as Social Sculpture -
22 Crossing-Over of Art History and Media History in the Times of the Early Internet—with Special Regard to THE THING NYC -
23 Arts Wire: The Nonprofit Arts Online -
24 Electronic Literature Organization Chats on LinguaMOO -
25 trAce Online Writing Centre, Nottingham Trent University, UK -
26 Pseudo Space: Experiments with Avatarism and Telematic Performance in Social Media - A Conversation and Two Epilogues
-
27 Expanding on “What Is the Social in Social Media?”: A Conversation with Geert Lovink -
28 Epilogue: Slow Machines and Utopian Dreams -
29 From Archaeology to Architecture: Building a Place for Noncommercial Culture Online - About the Authors
- Index
