Scott Rosenberg's Digital Culture Archive: 1995
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The Web's Next Dimension (Aug. 16, 1995)
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While most people are still getting used to the idea of a worldwide network of linked text and pictures, Internet technology moves forward into the three-dimensional unknown with VRML.
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Wherever You Lay Your @ Is Your Home (Aug. 9, 1995)
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Anatomy of e-mail addressing, and why old-fashioned print publications have such a hard time dealing with the new language and its symbols.
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"Star Trek" Gaming, Then and Now (Aug. 2, 1995)
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Once we navigated the Enterprise via telety Enterprise via teletype; today's "Star Trek" games come to us on CD-ROM with 3-D animations and actors' recorded voices. Progress? Maybe.
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Empowerment, One Pixel at a Time (July 26, 1995)
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At San Francisco's Digital Media Center, as part of the D*Lab Tapestry Project, students from all over the city are learning to make their own multimedia movies.
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A Cultural Time Capsule (July 19, 1995)
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The new "Haight-Ashbury in the '60s" CD-ROM is neither reference work nor music guide nor psychedelic game; it's a sort of catch-all compendium of its era that lets you Be There Now.
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Ratings On the Web? (July 12, 1995)
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Movie-style ratings for the World Wide Web are almost inevitable. What impact will they have on its freewheeling culture?
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Talking Back to Time (July 6, 1995)
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When Time magazine printed a cover story on "Cyberporn," a group of on-line critics took apart the article -- and the study it was based on -- line by line.
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A Hacker Horror Flick (July 5, 1995)
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Internet Society members watched in horror as Tsutomu Shimomura's film displayed the keystrokes of a busy hacker breaking into U.S. government computers. The Net still has plenty of holes, the experts warn, and the only remedy is vigilance.
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Net's Council of Elders Survey Their Revolution (July 2, 1995)
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At the Internet Society conference in Honolulu, the business of the day was spreading the "Internet revolution" to those parts of the world not yet wired.
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What the Trade Magazines Still Won't Tell You (June 28, 1995)
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If you want a multimedia computer that works, don't waste your time with a PC -- get a Macintosh.
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Getting New Music to Your Ears (June 21, 1995)
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Two new CD-ROM magazines aimed at introducing new music and bands, Launch and Blender, mix ads and editorial content like a bad cocktail. There's better guides on the Web.
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"Vietnam" Photographers Have Their Say (June 14, 1995)
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"Passage to Vietnam" CD-ROM adapts the New Journalism to a new medium.
Also: An Interview With Rick Smolan
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Exotic Art Imitates Exotic Life (June 7, 1995)
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Artificial life, digital evolution, and Internet-based art projects stole the show at the second annual Interactive Media Festival in Los Angeles.
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Don't Call Them Revolutionary (June 7, 1995)
- Movie websites and "Enhanced CDs" can be fun. Mostly, though, they're instances of media conglomerates desperately trying to shovel their old wares through new channels. In other words, ads.
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Trapped in Prodigy Limbo (May 31, 1995)
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The big on-line companies are supposed to be worth the cost because they offer good service. Sometimes, your neighborhood start-up Internet provider does a better job.
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How Much is That Info in the Window? (May 24, 1995)
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Nintendo is mad about software copying. Other companies are learning how to make friends with free software distribution over the Net.
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The New Videogame Philosophers (May 17, 1995)
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The industry is banking on a new generation of games that promise "suspension of disbelief." But is that what makes a great game -- and is it what gamers want?
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Laurie Anderson's Heartbreak "Motel" (May 10, 1995)
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The performance artist's CD-ROM, "Puppet Motel," captures the soul of a blue machine.
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Taking the Internet's Temperature (May 3, 1995)
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If he could see it today, would Marshall McLuhan categorize the Net as a "hot" or a "cold" medium?
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The Net After the Oklahoma Bombing (April 28, 1995)
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Everyone's got questions. In the FAQ tradition, an attempt at some answers.
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Getting a Private Tour, Digitally (April 26, 1995)
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A new carry-around CD-ROM guide from Antenna Theater transforms visits to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Why the Web Doesn't Need a Yellow Pages
(April 19, 1995)
- The best guide to the Web is itself -- that's the whole point of hypertext links, remember?
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A Global Family Portrait on CD-ROM (April 14, 1995)
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"Material World" strives to present the big picture of family life around the globe, but it stints on background and context.
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Among the Tribes of the Net (April 12, 1995)
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Author J.C. Herz's "Surfing on the Internet" is a young writer's lament for the lost youth of the net itself, as it evolves from a sort of "secret society" to a mass medium.
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The Battle for Multimedia's Soul (February, 1995)
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At the tenth annual Intermedia conference, the lines were clearly drawn: on the one side, big corporations and their "interactive" divisions, struggling to figure out how to make money; on the other, small developers, hoping to bring their visions to life.
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Guerrilla Publishers Fan Out on the Net (January 27, 1995)
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Who needs a printing press? Writers and editors are using the Internet to become self-publishers, bringing new points of view to the media stew.
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