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apdamegriff

@apdamegriff@aoir.social

Lecturer, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Gonzaga University. My work is at the intersection of web history, LGBTQ studies, feminist STS, and digital humanities. Author of The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet; founder and curator of the Queer Digital History Project (http://queerdigital.com). Collects cats and old technology.

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apdamegriff, to trans
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Given how many trans folks rely on information acquisition via search engines, espeically early on in transition, because they allow natural language queries, increased restriction to information sets a concerning precedent.

https://www.404media.co/google-delists-sites-providing-diy-hormone-therapy-at-behest-of-uk-government/

apdamegriff, to random
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Pleased with this weekend's estate sale haul.

Photo of two mid-2000s era budget flip phones and a MailStation, a portable e-mail terminal.
Photo of a working Panasonic Accu-Spell Plus word processor, with a gray keyboard and large CRT monitor.

apdamegriff, to usenet
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So, for awhile I've been slowly conducting oral histories with queer folks from the early Internet, a project I've called Read/Write Memories (https://queerdigital.com/rwm)

I'm happy to announce that the first of these histories, with narrator Max Vasilatos, is finally available! Max was the "co-founder" of the first gay newsgroup on Usenet, soc.motss, and they had many wonderful reflections on the community's early years and its legacy. https://queerdigital.com/items/show/138

#LGBTQhistory #usenet #queer

apdamegriff, to random
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This Tumblr hasn't been updated in years, but the posts and commentary are still A+: https://www.tumblr.com/bigdatapix

apdamegriff, to transgender
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Self-promo: Listen to me chat with Leigh Pfeffer on History is Gay about trans history, language change, and the role of technology in all of this: https://link.chtbl.com/LbK00do5

@histodons

ernie, to random
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What’s a question that you’ve always had about the world that you’ve never seen anyone try to answer before?

I will use answers from this thread as the basis of a future Tedium article. Boosts desired.

apdamegriff,
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@vga256 @ernie If The Little Garden falls under your scope as a local ISP, Tom Jennings might be a good candidate to talk to. There's also a few TLG-specific interviews from the early 1990s out there as well.

apdamegriff,
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@ernie @vga256 So many! There's also a whole history to be written about the BBS to ISP transition in the mid-1990s as well. I know of one that was transitioning to become a pseudo-ISP when AOL moved in to the exact same building they operated out of, which was the official nail in the coffin.

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