{"id":1558,"date":"2016-06-29T22:52:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T22:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2024-05-24T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T09:04:12","slug":"vacation-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the summer holidays are beginning, here are some examples of a rather forgotten genre of swapletters – tourist postcards! 1980s’ sceners<\/abbr> were mostly teenagers, so, besides chasing up originals to crack, doing fascinating things with computers, and travelling to the occasional copyparty<\/abbr>, they also attended school, had arguments with their parents, and, of course, went on vacation. The fascinating samples provided by Honey<\/strong>, Skylab<\/strong>, and Lynx<\/strong> show that they did so with mixed feelings: One the one hand, they enjoyed the holidays, but on the one hand, they were anxious about missing out on latest scene<\/abbr> news. So, even in such a fascinating place as Leningrad in 1988, one scener<\/abbr> was more concerned with ongoing C64<\/abbr> game projects at home than with the perestroika mood around him. Another common trait was the fascination of teenage sceners with half-naked women – so keep in mind that some of the images are rather NSFW<\/strong>. But most importantly, these postcards testify to the strong sense of friendship within the scene: Despite the fierce competition, the protagonists found time to simply send regards to their contacts around the world, whereever they went.<\/p>\n

This update includes following postcards:
\n\u2022 AVH\/Radwar (Germany) to Honey\/1001 (Netherlands), 19 April 1987, sent from London [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Breeze\/Antic (Australia) to Lynx\/Hitmen (Germany), 26 December 1991, sent from the Maldives [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Drago\/The Movers (Germany) to Honey, ~1987, sent from Loutraki\/Greece [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Frankie\/OGM (Germany) to Honey, 8 August 1987, sent from Barcelona [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Frankie\/OGM to Skylab\/The Movers (Germany), August 1987, sent from Barcelona [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Ixion\/Triad (Sweden) to Honey, 19 June 1987, sent from Liverpool [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Matcham\/Network (Norway) to Honey, 14 August 1988, sent from Leningrad [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Mega (?) to Lynx, 23 July 1991, sent from Riviera Romagnola\/Italy [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Sodan (Denmark) to Honey, 23 June 1987, sent from Ibiza [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 Strider\/Fairlight (Sweden) to Honey, 19 June 1987, sent from Kassandria\/Greece [metadata<\/a>]
\n\u2022 unknown member of Radwar to Honey, 24 March 1988, sent from D\u00e9nia\/Spain [metadata<\/a>]<\/p>\n