Lee’s witnessing of the underground switchboard prompted an idea: and for that he needed access to a computer network. Later he took a position as an engineer at Resource One, a radical idea for a people’s computer center at Project One, a DIY commune of artists, technologists, musicians, psychologists, alternative schools, darkroom and community radio. There, Lee worked on a team to build Community Memory, the first public community bulletin board, predating the web and social media by decades.

all i had was this cold, black DOS prompt and these games that made no sense, and which I didn't quite understand were meant to have been consumed in context - I was never supposed to have these apart from a BBS post or pamplet explaining what they were.

"(...) the roles that are taken up in an online community that's based around a "thing" (...). You'd choose to wear that mask and then hop on stage and do the dance that so many have done before you."

This is RTTY art, the precursor to what most people call Text or ASCII Art. It is also one of the largest collections of this artform available (although by no means complete). RTTY stands for "Radio Teletype" and is a method of sending Teletype text over