{"id":2160,"date":"2017-10-06T00:16:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T00:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2024-05-24T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T09:04:00","slug":"1980s-mail-swapping-envelopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=2160","title":{"rendered":"1980s Mail-Swapping Envelopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We&#8217;re back with some materials that remind you of the materiality of &#8220;warez trading&#8221; in the 1980s. In these envelopes from <strong>The Movers<\/strong>&#8216; collection, floppy disks with the newest <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Commodore 64, the most popular 8-bit home computer, produced between 1982 and 1994'>C64<\/abbr> and <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Commodore Amiga, one of the most popular 16-bit home computers, produced between 1985 and 1996'>Amiga<\/abbr> cracks and demos travelled around Europe between 1986 and 1988. Most people reused them and ultimately threw them away, but luckily these guys didn&#8217;t. There&#8217;s a whole box of them in our office now, and here&#8217;s just a small selection &#8211; featuring sendings from Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Switzerland. As usual, you can download the high quality scans and metadata <a href=\"https:\/\/files.scene.org\/browse\/resources\/gotpapers\/swapletters\/the_movers\/envelopes\/\">from the archive<\/a>, or view the pictures in the gallery below.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-2163 .fg-image { width: 150px; }\n#foogallery-gallery-2163 { --fg-gutter: 10px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-default foogallery-lightbox-foobox-free fg-center fg-default fg-ready fg-light fg-border-thin fg-round-full fg-shadow-small fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-2163\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:false},&quot;lazy&quot;:true}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a 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In these envelopes from The Movers&#8216; collection, floppy disks with the newest <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Commodore 64, the most popular 8-bit home computer, produced between 1982 and 1994'>C64<\/abbr> and <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Commodore Amiga, one of the most popular 16-bit home computers, produced between 1985 and 1996'>Amiga<\/abbr> cracks and demos travelled around Europe between 1986 and 1988. Most people reused them and ultimately threw them away, but luckily these guys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,17],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-additions","tag-envelopes","tag-swapletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2183,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}