Hello,
30 years ago, on *1 December 1990*, _*Hacker Art BBS*_ was born in Florence.
A history of the BBS can be seen at:
http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Hacker_Art_BBS_(1990)
The Bullettin Board Systems (BBS) were, at that time, a sort of middle
way between a web portal and a blog: they were part of networks that
allowed online communications to circulate around the world via the
telephone network and the modem. .
The BBS was presented for the first time in an art gallery (as a work)
in July 1991 within the /*Anni '90*/ international exhibition at the
Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Bologna curated by Renato Barilli:
http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Anni_Novanta_(1991)
The term "*/Hacker Art/*" was started to be used by Tommaso Tozzi in
early 1989.
The announcement that by 1990 the BBS would be put online was circulated
by Tommaso Tozzi in underground, activist and artistic circuits since
the spring of 1990 and its advertising was promoted by Tozzi through a
card and the press releases that Tozzi disseminated in Italy and abroad
(especially in New York during a trip he made in November 1990).
Over time, the BBS connected to a dozen national and international
networks, containing several hundred forums for free communication, as
well as various file areas and online interaction methods.
Hacker Art BBS has been the Florentine node of the *European Counter
Network* (ECN) since the beginning of 1991, it hosted the first Italian
*Cyberpunk *forum since its birth in March 1991 and was the second node
of the nascent Italian *Cybernet *network in January of 1993.
A video with a presentation of the BBS made by Tommaso Tozzi in 1993 is
available at the following address:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpaXdSp6ctY
A video with a simulation of a link to the BBS in its very first version
can be found at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilwzp-_296M
In 1994 *Hacker Art BBS* was joined by *Virtual Town TV*, a BBS renewed
with a new graphic style and managed together with the Strano Network
group of Florence:
http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Virtual_Town_TV_(1994)
In 2000 the BBS was closed and the site opened
http://www.hackerart.org
which, however, has very different contents from those of the original
BBS and does not allow the interaction that the BBS allowed in its ten
years of life.
*HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY HACKER ART BBS !!!*
Tommaso Tozzi
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