steampunk credo

  Rich “↑Datamancer“ Nagy specializes in “prestidigital datamancery & paraphernalic technofetishism (now with 20% more superfluous pleonasm!!).” In strictly out-of-character words: he makes customized steampunk-themed computer hardware to order. Here is a long quote, illustrating the ↑rationale behind his occupation:  Due to both the lack of creativity in most of the technically inclined and refinements in plastic forming and mass production, the home computer was denied what I feel to be the proudest time in the life of any technological device. It was robbed of the fleeting, wonderful period right after invention, where it is celebrated and honored by the … Continue reading

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lo tek nexus

For everybody harbouring a piece of cyberculture inside the depths of the mind getting connected to the Internet is vital. Obviously. This banality starts to get interesting when one is obsessed with questions like that one: What machine shall I connect to the Internet and via which path? Yesterday ↑KerLeone managed to connect an ancient Toshiba 1200XE laptop to the net via a cellular phone and published the ↑Retro Wireless Blogging Tutorial [in German] explaining the feat he pulled off. In my ↵project’s abstract I wrote that I will set my fieldwork-results into relation to the appropriate parts of the … Continue reading

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