<nettime> HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY HACKER ART BBS !!!

[tozzi gmail <tom.tozzi@gmail.com>]

    Hello,

30 years ago, on 1 December 1990, Hacker Art BBS was born in Florence.

A history of the BBS can be seen at:

http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Hacker_Art_BBS_(1990)

The Bullettin Board Systems (BBS) were, at that time, a sort of middle way between a web portal and a blog: they were part of networks that allowed online communications to circulate around the world via the telephone network and the modem. .

The BBS was presented for the first time in an art gallery (as a work) in July 1991 within the Anni '90 international exhibition at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Bologna curated by Renato Barilli:

http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Anni_Novanta_(1991)

The term "Hacker Art" was started to be used by Tommaso Tozzi in early 1989.

The announcement that by 1990 the BBS would be put online was circulated by Tommaso Tozzi in underground, activist and artistic circuits since the spring of 1990 and its advertising was promoted by Tozzi through a card and the press releases that Tozzi disseminated in Italy and abroad (especially in New York during a trip he made in November 1990).

Over time, the BBS connected to a dozen national and international networks, containing several hundred forums for free communication, as well as various file areas and online interaction methods.

Hacker Art BBS has been the Florentine node of the European Counter Network (ECN) since the beginning of 1991, it hosted the first Italian Cyberpunk forum since its birth in March 1991 and was the second node of the nascent Italian Cybernet network in January of 1993.

A video with a presentation of the BBS made by Tommaso Tozzi in 1993 is available at the following address:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpaXdSp6ctY

A video with a simulation of a link to the BBS in its very first version can be found at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilwzp-_296M


In 1994 Hacker Art BBS was joined by Virtual Town TV, a BBS renewed with a new graphic style and managed together with the Strano Network group of Florence:

http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Virtual_Town_TV_(1994)


In 2000 the BBS was closed and the site opened

http://www.hackerart.org

which, however, has very different contents from those of the original BBS and does not allow the interaction that the BBS allowed in its ten years of life.


HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY HACKER ART BBS !!!

Tommaso Tozzi

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