I got to thinking - well sort of - it was that earlier posting about events we ran back in the 90's on internet stuff got me thinking about what sort of footprint these events etc had left in terms of archive materials, other than those buried (maybe) on servers and hard drives somewhere and came across these - incidentally the previous posting made mention of an event called 'Is content still King?' the event that actually took place on that world cup final day was this one:
The Future Shape of Cyberspace: Virtually There
6pm Wednesday 10th June 1998
MAC Hexagon Theatre, Birmingham UK
What will the Internet of the future look like? Will we be communicating and collaborating in three dimensions? This event brings together thinkers and practitioners to explore the worlds of VRML, virtual meetings, and avatars.
The panel will include Simon Bore (Oku Pi, London VR Group), and Dr Graham Walker an expert from BT's Labs in Martlesham.
Advance tickets are now available at the price of £4 by calling the MAC box office on 0121 440 3838 or 0121 440 4221 or through Robert Sharl consultancy if paying by cheque.
This event is a part of Rotunda's current cross-media programme "The Future Shape of Cyberspace", chaired by Robert Sharl consultancy.
For more details: auto@rotunda.sharl.co.uk. Tel:0121 693 5606.
This event is supported by CUBIT business internet club.
And then this later posting about pdfheaven a later project:
From: Charlotte Carey
Subject: PDF heaven
Pdfheaven has announced the biggest ever festival of creative acrobatics, a world's fair of exciting work in Acrobat Portable Document Format - the multi-platform, multi-application medium for exchange of digital documents.
Pdfheaven will be showcasing work that highlights the creative potential of this file format - from the visual arts and creative writing to architectural designs and diy origami, and beyond. If it's pdf they want to see it! All the work will be shown at a special event during metapod.expo in October 2000.
pdfsubmit@pdfheaven.com
http://www.pdfheaven.com
I'm not sure where I am going with all this but I guess there was a reveloution (still occuring) that we have all contributed to, lived through and in some instances and in some small way helped shape. Last year or was it the year before I got talking to Eva Pascoe (founder of Cyberia) at the time she was talking about putting together a book - something around cybercafes and possibly women or early days people (I forget now) - as briefly the marketing co-ordinator of Birmingham's first cybercafe (1995-1996) I was interested - we spoke about the possible inclusion of some Birmingham history. Not quite sure what happened with that but feel a little bit like there are some stories to tell.
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