🚀 go-pugleaf

I found this in rec.music.industrial.  Potential concentration
of hosts susceptible to extropian memes? :)

CPOK


Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk,alt.cyberpunk.movement,alt.rave,rec.music.industrial,alt.cyberspace,alt.dcom.telecom
From: ahawks@isis.cs.du.edu (jabba the slut)
Subject: FutureCulture - New Mailing List
Date: Sat, 23 May 92 02:51:57 GMT


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Just What Is the FutureCulture Mailing List???
        
History:  One day someone sent me mail on the Internet: "hey man, could you
send me that cyberpunk bibliography you posted about?"  Sure, I replied.  But,
much to my dismay, I could not find what the fellow cyberpunk was looking for
among the volumes of papers, printouts, folders, and disks that lay scattered
across my room.  This happenned to me all the time, so I decided to gather all
of these miscellaneous printouts and articles into one giant source.  But the
more I got involved in this task, the more I realized just how vast and
infinite this could turn out to be as I kept finding new resources to add to my
list.  At this point, the list included : cyberpunk, virtual reality, 
music, movies, videos, books, ftp sites, e-mail addresses, and company
addresses.  The one thing all of the information included in my list had in
common was that it was all on the fringes of culture and it was all oriented
towards the future.

That is what FutureCulture is meant to be about - the future and the fringes of
culture.  Topics discussed here range from computers and the computer
underground to cyberpunk genre to virtual reality to fractals to cybernetics to
post-modernism to industrial to raves to ???.  Admittedly, this is a large
variety of topics, but they all have basic underlying threads in common.

This mailing-list operates from a non-scientific perspective, although
discussions of a technical nature are welcome to some extent.  Basically, my
aim is to have a mailing-list where all the "high-tech lowlifes" (Cyberpunks,
Ravers, Industrialists, Po-Po-Mo's, VR freaks, Post-hippies and still-hippies)
have a place to hang out in cyberspace and discuss whatever they want to in
terms of the developing culture and technology.

Please realise that since the variety of topics is so big, basically limitless
and constantly changing, understand that there will be times when the general
conversation will not interest you.  But sooner or later it will revert back to
something you care about - and you can always start up a new topic to discuss.

The FutureCultureFAQ - This file is an ever-growing/ever-changing monster of a
resource guide that should help you out with some of the topics discussed on
the list. If you don't like the mailing-list but DO like that article, send
mail to fcfaq-request@nyx.cs.du.edu and I will see that you only receive that
article when it is updated.  Updates of the article will be regularly posted to
the FutureCulture Mailing List.


Andy / Hawkeye
ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu
maintainer of the FutureCulture mailing list

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