textpunk

we've all heard about cyberpunk and cipherpunk, but here's something new: textpunk. That's right. Textpunk Newspaper articles, BBSs (like this one), IRC, ASCII art, Kopipe, program source code, Novels, View HTML source, Google search engine, Mathematics, Hieroglyphics, The Rosetta Stone, Gutenberg Bible... A textpunk doesn't sit there waiting for information to be slowly fed to him drip at a time by the gogglebox. A textpunk is thirsty for knowledge and 100% focused - they read old school hacker textfile zines. They don't waste their time with lame imageboarders: instead they're doing crazy abstract brewing soykaf on /prog/ with thoughts and concepts twisted up so with many levels of irony that it becomes an art form. Textpunks recognize and understand the true power of kopipe - how a well crafted piece of text can be so damn powerful that it alone can trigger thousands of replies with so much veracity within days. They see *through* things down into the core of what really counts, everything in the computer is built of text, ascii, strings of bits - They don't care about the latest 3D GUI environment fads. No, that's just a distraction. 7-bit clean ascii program source code. That's textpunk. Look at how text has shaped humanity: The birth of writing systems was correlated with some of fastest advances of science and technology in early human history. Mass production of the Bible took power away from a few select monks and democratized paving the way for people to start thinking for themselves. Programming is text and it's the closest thing there is in the world to true wizardy and spell casting. Talking about real SICP-type programming here, not that modern garbage. Today textpunks build up digital libraries of books and stick it to the copyright cartel. Schwarz, lib gen, the gentoomen library, and so many anonymous sources that tireless scan and collect books.. Textpunks are the people in tune with modern digital society of ultrafast cost-free transmission of text, they're the ones rethinking and revolutionizing publishing mixing it with open rights and making works available online.

I can dig it.

>wizardy [sic] I, for one, welcome our [somewhat] literate future would-be [[counter-]counter-]revolutionaries. You can get further with an ethos and some coding ability than with just plain old coding ability. Or so I have read on the Internet.

you could have at least improved on it after posting it on other sites.

>>20215 how improve

Interesting, sounds cool to me. I'll add it to my anarchist resume

but can textpunks still rice?

>>20226 Why not? :) http://i.imgur.com/GGCjz.png

>not writing in old norse in rune font on your emacs instance >arab script dialect of lisp http://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/ >>20238 >playing video someone else created NOT TEXTPUNK NOT EVEN CYBERPUNK

>>20200 >BBSs (like this one) >lame imageboarders You sure you in the right place, brah?

>>20240 >>playing video someone else created >NOT EVEN CYBERPUNK Why not? Care to elaborate? Also, if kmandla is not a textpunk in some way, I didn't really get what this textpunk stuff is...

>>20240 >ayyrab >not supreme folded mongolian script Embrace ancientpunk, the oldest form of cyberpunk

That's nice. Anyone's got zines to recommend?

>>20244 ~el8

textfiles.com has a large collection of interesting plaintext files mostly from BBS's in the 80s

>>20244 the monad reader

>>20244 The later issues of b4b0.

>>20200 So it's basically the dogecoin of the altpunks.

So something like the phrack magazines? If so, I'm already there m80s

I'm archiving the whole textfiles.com site, I'll upload it as a .zpaq when I'm done. Any other cool sites I should archive?

>>20241 right in the op it says >a well crafted piece of text can be so damn powerful that it alone can trigger thousands of replies with so much veracity within days. bretty sure this is hipster elitist trolling, at least in part. I know you get wicked hacker cred for ditching guis but acting like cli is always objectively better ignores so much of the human experience it makes me a little sad.

>>20253 Is there any archive of all the el8/anti-sec stuff? I can post what I have but I'm pretty sure it's incomplete.

>>20425 apparently I lost all my el8 stuff when my raid crashed a year back ;_; post some ~el8?

>>20425 >>20426 I'm not sure it's the whole collection, but I hope it helps. http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/EL8/

>>20427 Thanks -- I had that, but I also had two or so anti-sec zines (which I believe was the same group as el8, or at least the same clique), and I'm pretty sure I had one more straight up ~el8 release. back yr soykaf up, lains.