I'm looking for anyone who'd be willing to be interviewed or have a chat about their experiences of using technology in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s as part of a #DigiPres project to document the growth and change in that time.
Please drop me a reply or DM if you're interested.
Who am I looking for? Software people, gamers, enthusiasts, fellow nerds... anyone who used and/or loved technology around the start of the PC boom and birth of the WWW around the world.
@LaCrecerelle Our first household computer was an Atari 400 that my parents bought when I was an infant (so /Centipede/ and /Asteroids/ are probably burned into my brain at a fundamental level). Dad actually did a little programming on it, making a game in Basic for me to practice my spelling. I started coding myself on a PC in the early '90s: QBasic, MS-DOS batch files, then a bit of assembly to augment the batch files and do silly tricks like turning on the mouse pointer at the DOS prompt, Visual Basic and C eventually. My school friends and I did a little digital video editing right around the turn of the century, when it was just becoming feasible to do at home.
Once, we went to the Super Wal-Mart on the night shift and convinced them to give us their entire kiosk full of free AOL CDs, which we loaded into the bed of a pickup truck and drove away with.
What can I say? There wasn't much to do in Huntsville.
Kestral
Blake C. Stacey