Early Electronic Literature http://www.alansondheim.org/barmitzvah1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/barmitzvah2.jpg My Bar Mitzvah invitations sent out; I was of course 12 at the time, on the cusp. I had become a Novice ham operator, never contacted anyone, was frightened of code (as a Novice I could only code), pretty much scared of the world. But reaching out through radio, that I could do anonymously. Soon I was simply listening across the world, directly, without any possibility hacking at all. I still listen, and in a way there's less to hear, but in another, even moreso, given the cosmos' propensity to radiate. In any case here's one of the ancestors of online (telegraph being the other), employed as might be imagined, in an illustrated movement from body (the hand) through apparatus (the key, the transmission) to body (through addresses, not URLs but you get the idea), to later what would be called a gathering IRL perhaps, the WN3DRP being the invitation to a Zoom far more sophisticated than the _real thing._ Back then, _I knew._ __ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Early Electronic Literature
Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour Wed, 17 Aug 2022 22:45:26 -0700
