{"id":4,"date":"2015-04-08T01:07:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T01:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2015-10-06T22:21:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T22:21:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?page_id=4","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The historical heritage of what was once the &#8220;illegal&#8221;, &#8220;pirate&#8221;, or &#8220;<abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='removing the copy protection of proprietary software'>cracking<\/abbr>&#8221; <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='self-referring term for the cracking scene and the demoscene'>scene<\/abbr>, and what evolved later on into the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demoscene\"><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='global community of realtime graphics programmers and computer artists, born out of the cracking scene'>demoscene<\/abbr><\/a>&#8221; &#8211; it is not just digital. Think of party flyers. Think of swap letters. Think of scene <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='early scene magazines printed on paper, comparable to fanzines'>papermags<\/abbr>. Think of disk covers and group stickers. And while our digital legacy is safely stored, the scene\u2019s material artefacts are permanently endangered. Imagine your parents cleaning out their basement and throwing away your old stuff. What if the <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='early scene magazine printed on paper, comparable to fanzines'>papermag<\/abbr> in that box was the last existing copy on Earth?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>How?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To prevent this impending loss of the scene\u2019s material heritage, we call on <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='self-referring term for members of the cracking scene and the demoscene'>sceners<\/abbr> to rummage through their stash and to look for paper artefacts. As part of a historical research project that explores the history of the\u00a0 scene in the 1980s and early 1990s, and in cooperation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scene.org\">scene.org<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demozoo.org\">demozoo.org<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mags.c64.org\">mags.c64.org<\/a>, we want to facilitate high quality scans of your old scene materials and make sure they are preserved for future generations. We are looking for papermags, flyers, scene stickers, swap letters, wristbands, party\/group t-shirts, and other material artefacts particularly from the 1980s, but also from later periods of scene history. Please <a href=\"http:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?page_id=15\">get in touch<\/a> if you have any materials you would like to share. You can send your items to us by post, which we scan in Zurich and make sure they reach you back safely. If you consider your items too precious to be sent by post, we will surely find another solution. Also, you are more than welcome to facilitate the scans yourself &#8211; as long as they are in full colour (even with b\/w materials) and have a resolution of 300 DPI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The scans of your items will be stored in a dedicated archive at scene.org, including metadata on the items&#8217; history and their donators. Items related to the <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Commodore 64, the most popular 8-bit home computer, produced between 1982 and 1994'>C64<\/abbr> scene will be additionally passed on to mags.c64.org. Incoming additions will be posted here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why? The historical heritage of what was once the &#8220;illegal&#8221;, &#8220;pirate&#8221;, or &#8220;<abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='removing the copy protection of proprietary software'>cracking<\/abbr>&#8221; <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='self-referring term for the cracking scene and the demoscene'>scene<\/abbr>, and what evolved later on into the &#8220;<abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='global community of realtime graphics programmers and computer artists, born out of the cracking scene'>demoscene<\/abbr>&#8221; &#8211; it is not just digital. Think of party flyers. Think of swap letters. Think of scene <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='early scene magazines printed on paper, comparable to fanzines'>papermags<\/abbr>. Think of disk covers and group stickers. 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