oaklandwatch writes:
On a day when America looks back on those who came before,
Wired is
remembering a pioneering technology magazine [wired.com] named
Mondo 2000 — and sharing video of its editors' legendary appearance on a mid-90s PBS series, "
The Internet Cafe [archive.org]". When its host questioned them about cyberpunk, they turned the interview into an ironic media stunt by providing a live, sneering cyberpunk model named Malice (wearing a fake neural implant on his head), as the words "real cyberpunk" jokingly flashed on the bottom of the screen. "At a time when few people outside academia had access to the internet,
Mondo 2000 was many a wannabe hacker's introduction to the online world,"
Wired remembers fondly, even acknowleding that they'd "borrowed" their own magazine's design motif from
Mondo 2000, in those early years before ISPs started popularizing consumer internet access.
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