Systems like Amazon, Google, and Facebook are so massive that it’s easy to forget that the digital world was not always like this. Kevin Driscoll, ’09, and Indiana University’s Julien Mailland discuss how France’s Minitel offers a wealth of data for thinking about internet policy and an alternative model for the internet’s future: a public platform for private innovation.
Platforms in the Public Interest: Lessons from Minitel
After thirty years in service, Minitel offers a wealth of data for thinking about internet policy and an alternative model for the internet’s future: a public platform for private innovation.
Podcast: Kevin Driscoll, “Re-Calling The Modem World: The Dial-Up History Of Social Media”
“While prevailing histories of the early internet tend to focus on state-sponsored experiments such as ARPANET, the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.”
Re-calling the Modem World: The Dial-up History of Social Media
Kevin Driscoll presents how the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.
Rhizome highlights Driscoll/Diaz “chiptunes” research as required reading
The influential arts website Rhizome, part of NYC’s New Museum, is the latest to tout CMS grad students Kevin Driscoll’s and Josh Diaz’s collaboration on chiptunes, music inspired by videogame soundtracks.
CMS grad students Kevin Driscoll and Josh Diaz’s chiptunes study featured on BoingBoing’s Offworld
“Transformative Works has devoted its latest issue to the subject of games, and chief amongst its best pieces is MIT students Kevin Driscoll and Joshua Diaz’s exhaustive look at the history and rise of the chiptune genre.”
