[Themaintainers] "Community Memory"

[Christa Hartsock]

Though less about the larger impact / context, I found interesting this
interview with a worker on Community Memory from Processed World:
https://archive.org/details/processedworld2627proc/page/n27/mode/2up (Page
28 in the PDF viewer). Also available in full text with images here:
http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Ambivalent_Memories_of_Virtual_Community

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 7:18 AM Mink, Jessica <jmink at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:

> 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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