Episode 77: When You Die Online You Die in Real Life ft. Default Friend

February 8th, 2022  |  1 hr 1 min

cyberpunk, cyberspace, digital life, history, humdog, internet, second life, slaves of gor, the sims

DF and Emmet had such a good time talking about early internet history they decided to do it again. This time, they're looking at humdog's seminal but half-forgotten essay "pandora's vox." DF and Emmet try to work through the internet as a form, it's incredible liquidity, how physical space has transubstantiated into the internet, things like the Slaves of Gor fandom as a substructure of the internet, what it means that humdog seems to have committed suicide over exactly the kind of relationship she warned about and more!