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In case you’ve been living under a rock (or maybe spending too much time on TikTok) you’ll want to check out Cyberspace.online, a text-only social network with retro cyber visual themes and no Like button.
Cyberspace.online is spreading like wildfire with retro enthusiasts on cyberdeck subreddits and Hackaday.
What’s the attraction? For one thing there’s no images, only ASCII art and text like in the BBS days, forcing you to use your thinking cap and actual read text instead of just letting the AI slop ooze into your brain by ways of your eyeballs.
As with any Cybertopic, there’s debate as to why, but as we discussed with Alex a few weeks ago, it’s more about the feeling and the resistance to the status quo more than anything.
If you need some inspiration for what to post on your cyberwall, I’d highly recommend Where the Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of the Internet, a detailed history of how engineers created the ARPANET, the basis of the Internet we use today.
A particular memorable section describes the creation of Request for Comments. Perhaps a theme that could be explored in Cyberspace?
See you over there, follow us at @uconsole !
My experience with the site is that it is just another iteration of growth and then centralized censorship off of what Genghis_Khan thinks ought to be there. To me, this is trying to hijack the Cypherpunk mentality without the spirit of what that meant, so I asked for my account to be deleted and was told to “enjoy the dumpster fire of the non-walled garden” of the internet before my request was granted.
I’m old enough not to need Genghis_Khan to be my babysitter. Indeed, I was around during the original Cypherpunk era. This, from my view, is some kind of joke. However, your experience might be better than mine, and if it is, the idea of the community is neat.