I seem to recall that I first heard about The Internet, was in the mid to late 80’s. That was through the print out of the Star Trek game, written in BASIC (Beginners All Symbolic Instruction Code) Only snag was at the time, I didn’t have access to a computer so that I could type the programme in. But I do recall that the printout had email addresses with @ sign so proper internet addresses.
Then in the early 90’s I got my first internet connection, 14K dial up modem of course, it was painfully slow, but it worked. At some point I upgraded to a 56K modem, in today’s terms, slower than a snail, almost stationary, but again it worked.
My first proper service provider was Compuserve – not really a genuine internet connection, but they did have some interesting forums where we had some interesting discussions, and arguments – oh yes the arguments. They were good. What’s sparked this post off you ask?
Today, one of the blogs that I followed made a post about (it being his contention) that photography is not art. It was actually quite a rant about his objection to it being labelled as such. The nature of the post / rant immediately took me back to those Compuserve days. In a way I miss them. I even made contact with one of the regular posters from those days – her name popped up in article. She runs a quite well known gallery / museum. I dropped her a note saying him, and reminding her of those days.
She did at least acknowledge, but I did wonder if she was cringing as she did so.
Back to today’s ranting photographer. I did put a reply to his rant. I couldn’t resist it. What about, I asked, Abstract photography? And left it at that. I wonder if he’ll respond.
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