[Themaintainers] "Community Memory"

[Mink, Jessica]

I found this interesting discussion of Community Memory as a forerunner of
the Well, one of the first computer bulletin boards centered around the
Whole Earth Catalog culture:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/elliseng1710sp2018/2018/03/29/after-class-writing-turners-where-the-counterculture-met-the-new-economy-the-well-and-the-origins-of-virtual-community/

I'm going to poke around in my library for references; I'm sure that there
is an article about it somewhere in my back issues of the Coevolution
Quarterly/Whole Earth Review, a print magazine which grew out of the same
culture in the Bay Area but spread across the world in the 1970's and
1980's.

-Jessica Mink


On Mon, May 11, 2020, 08:55 Su <su at generis.name> wrote:

> Community Memory is one of the "other networks" Lori Emerson
> https://loriemerson.net/ has looked at for her project named…Other
> Networks. She talked about it a bit in a presentation at UMD in 2014
> starting here:
> http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/there-is-no-internet/#p(CMPCMP)
> The ON project has been in the background for a while but you might
> have a look through her publications(the page on her site is not
> complete) to see if there's something relevant, or get in touch with
> her for some references.
>
> On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 8:46 AM Danny Spitzberg <danny at peakagency.co>
> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know much about the social history of the "Community Memory"
> project?
> >
> > It was entirely before my time, but I'm fascinated by its vision - and
> how everything old feels new again. Also, it looks like the CHM in Silicon
> Valley has the full archive now:
> https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8cv4p5k/
> >
> > Curious,
> > Danny
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