Subserial Network subtly tells a story about the optimism embedded in early digital culture; of the hope many of us shared that new, more parallel and anonymous modes of communication would yield more authentic, fluid identities and deeper and more empathetic modes of human connection. It uses the visual language of early digital protocols like BBS, email and Lynx, to evoke a sense of nostalgia for that utopian vision, even though the narrative is set in a distant posthuman dystopia.
It also led me to the existence of Babycastles, which explains itself only via the medium of Max Headroom Blipvert, but can be usefully summed up thus:
Linkage: http://thatsnot.fun
