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The Real Cyberpunk

Entered when : 05 October 2022
       where: A cold train station
       on   : Atari Portfolio
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Beware, this is again going to be a pseudophilosphical
rant-y file with some things that came to my mind after
chatting with a few friends.

I like the "retrocomputing" scene the more i watch it.
Yeah, of course you have there the collectors and the
people who start to really "invest" in old computers, but
you also have there the real cyberpunks who uses the system
he (or she) focusses on to accomplish a task on a machine
long after it was thought to be completely obsolete.

We have an active BBS scene, we have people using machines
like a C64 to write novels or create pixel art or code
demos, there are people working on new games for the most
obscure systems that are out there, not for the money, but
because its the thing THEY WANT TO DO. Hell, there are even
new, homebrewn systems coming out...

I think THIS is the real "cyberpunk", people finding their
way in the shadows of the big tech corporations and a
losely connected scene growing in the cracks of the
concrete of the commercialised data highways. Yeah, every
media nowadays is closer surveiled than George Orwell could
imagine and we are fed more "soma" through social media
than Mr. Huxley would have thought... but in real "punk"
fashion there is a growing culture that subverts this
trends of society.

We maybe never will have the open culture that many wished
upon in the 90s and early 00s, but there will allways be a
subculture which embraces the "otherness".

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