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Demoscene = The oldest existent digital culture?

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I would question how the demoscene can be considered "popular culture" in any way whatsoever, but if you're not going to define it then there's not much point.

So instead, I'll just say that the demoscene is the oldest existing trunchbuckle.
added on the 2011-09-24 15:51:49 by gasman gasman
The demoscene was mentioned in this one retarded cooking show with bacon once! So it's popular culture alright!
added on the 2011-09-24 18:05:30 by okkie okkie
I would vote to Tech Model Railway Club at MIT...
added on the 2011-09-24 18:21:35 by FooLman FooLman
OK! Let me try to define it...
There's a discussion that tries to distinguish popular culture from mass culture. So, the terms that I'm using here are considering these basic ideas:
The concept of popular culture goes against the concept of mass culture. A popular culture is a culture created by the people and a mass culture is a culture imposed to the people.

And with the replies, I realize that it isn't the oldest digital culture nor popular.
added on the 2011-09-25 11:02:44 by Danguafer Danguafer
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There's a discussion that tries to distinguish popular culture from mass culture.
Is there? Popular culture = "mass culture" (whatever that term is supposed to mean). "Popular" is by definition "what the masses like".

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And with the replies, I realize that it isn't the oldest digital culture nor popular.
Not even by a long shot.
added on the 2011-09-25 11:09:29 by gloom gloom
when I have created my first demo, I was coding on my Thomson TO8 and it was the first thing that looks so nice I could look about during dozen of minutes. I've used bin from loriciels to make it and I was sufficiently proud of myself understanding how to use bin but I never code ASM on my TO8.
It was early 1987 or 1988 and the demoscene was born throught telepathies, because it was a share of ideas.
At now, I see only prods and few ideas shared throught portals, each web site are dispatched there could be a thing to be done sharing all sources, imagine a man looking to create demos and looks at links with full sources !
added on the 2011-09-25 11:45:25 by Bartoshe Bartoshe
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Popular culture (commonly known as pop culture) is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes,[1] images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture,
added on the 2011-09-25 13:07:23 by xernobyl xernobyl
How about this?

The demoscene was probably the first globally connected subculture of creative hackers. Globally - as in the computerized parts of the world. Creative - as in revolving around audiovisual works. Subculture - as a group of people with rather distinct sets of artefacts & ideas.

The precursors to this were e.g. phreakers, hackers, academics, artists and activists but the demoscene was either more widely popular or more tightly connected.
added on the 2011-09-25 18:12:28 by goto80 goto80
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added on the 2011-09-25 19:58:56 by w00t! w00t!
Popular = by the people. The idea of "mass" is quite different of "popular".
When THEY remove a term from your dictionary or make some terms synonymous, THEY are trying to brainwash you. OK? OK. OK then.
added on the 2011-09-26 14:35:54 by Danguafer Danguafer
the demoscene is so old, it even build the pyramids!
just watch kefrens - desert dream if you dont believe it!
added on the 2011-09-26 14:58:25 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
Who is THEY?
added on the 2011-09-26 15:12:04 by okkie okkie
he is cleary refering to THE MAN
added on the 2011-09-26 15:15:05 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
While understanding the past is important, knowing the direction of the road ahead is even more important. Go make a demo about it ;)
added on the 2011-09-27 07:50:14 by Punqtured Punqtured
also remember this: with great power comes great responsibility!
added on the 2011-09-27 08:11:46 by farfar farfar

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