Here is a post of an event that totally blew peoples mindswww.theclothesstore.com/ubbzs/Forum8/HTML/000885.html
(the link above is different to the text in this post, the rest of this is background to let you know just how bizzare the events in the post were)
The site had a live chat thing you could use and people would shoot the breeze in there, on the 23rd of each month events started to happen. It was imposible to tell who was part of the site and who was just a participant. There was one person though - Scribe - who was the voice of the site. There'd be occasional webcasts of audio and choppy webcams of odd things.
Finally, after over a year of slow uncovering, discovery and friendships forming a small community built up around the site, and working out what the hell it was about and what it was there for. Scribe announced a LIVE event and that the people behind it did these live events as a seperate but related thing. We may get to descover some more details, great. A few people from 'the filter' (the chat room) had met up seperately or drawn friends in, but now was the chance for a lot of us to meet up.
This was before b3ta so anyone who's been to their first b3ta bash will know the feeling - only multiply it by 23.
So then this event gets cancelled mysteriously a few days before it was due. Bah it was just a tease. Oh well, several of us decided to meet up anyway in London. At a bar called The Foundry. (with super strong KLF connections)
That's the background, read the post now.
((the link above is different to the text in this post, the rest of this is background to let you know just how bizzare the events in the post were)
The site had a live chat thing you could use and people would shoot the breeze in there, on the 23rd of each month events started to happen. It was imposible to tell who was part of the site and who was just a participant. There was one person though - Scribe - who was the voice of the site. There'd be occasional webcasts of audio and choppy webcams of odd things.
Finally, after over a year of slow uncovering, discovery and friendships forming a small community built up around the site, and working out what the hell it was about and what it was there for. Scribe announced a LIVE event and that the people behind it did these live events as a seperate but related thing. We may get to descover some more details, great. A few people from 'the filter' (the chat room) had met up seperately or drawn friends in, but now was the chance for a lot of us to meet up.
This was before b3ta so anyone who's been to their first b3ta bash will know the feeling - only multiply it by 23.
So then this event gets cancelled mysteriously a few days before it was due. Bah it was just a tease. Oh well, several of us decided to meet up anyway in London. At a bar called The Foundry. (with super strong KLF connections)
That's the background, read the post now.
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Tue 10 Mar 2009, 13:36,
archived)
There were maybe only about 20-30 people that followed and explored the sitesome from America and some as far as Japan. Who knows how many lurkers too.
About 7 or 8 of us were going to try and meet that night.
(About 7 or 8 of us were going to try and meet that night.
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:09,
archived)
Several others from there also became b3tansIt was a natural progression I think.
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:23,
archived)