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<div>Hello,<br>
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<div>30 years ago, on<b> 1 December 1990</b>,<font size="+2"><u><b>
Hacker Art BBS</b></u></font> was born in Florence.<br>
<br>
A history of the BBS can be seen at:<br>
<br>
<a
href="http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Hacker_Art_BBS_(1990)"
>http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Hacker_Art_BBS_(1990)</a><br
>
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The Bullettin Board Systems (BBS) were, at that time, a sort of middle
way between a web portal and a blog: they were part of networks that
allowed online communications to circulate around the world via the
telephone network and the modem. .<br>
<br>
The BBS was presented for the first time in an art gallery (as a work)
in July 1991 within the<i><b> Anni '90</b></i> international
exhibition at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Bologna curated by Renato
Barilli:<br>
<br>
<a
href="http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Anni_Novanta_(1991)"
>http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Anni_Novanta_(1991)</a><br
>
<br>
The term "<i><b>Hacker Art</b></i>" was started to be used
by Tommaso Tozzi in early 1989.<br>
<br>
The announcement that by 1990 the BBS would be put online was
circulated by Tommaso Tozzi in underground, activist and artistic
circuits since the spring of 1990 and its advertising was promoted by
Tozzi through a card and the press releases that Tozzi disseminated in
Italy and abroad (especially in New York during a trip he made in
November 1990).<br>
<br>
Over time, the BBS connected to a dozen national and international
networks, containing several hundred forums for free communication, as
well as various file areas and online interaction methods.<br>
<br>
Hacker Art BBS has been the Florentine node of the<b> European Counter
Network</b> (ECN) since the beginning of 1991, it hosted the first
Italian<b> Cyberpunk</b> forum since its birth in March 1991 and was
the second node of the nascent Italian<b> Cybernet</b> network in
January of 1993.<br>
<br>
A video with a presentation of the BBS made by Tommaso Tozzi in 1993
is available at the following address:<br>
<br>
<a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpaXdSp6ctY"
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpaXdSp6ctY</a><br>
<br>
A video with a simulation of a link to the BBS in its very first
version can be found at:<br>
<br>
<a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilwzp-_296M"
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilwzp-_296M</a><br>
<br>
<br>
In 1994<b> Hacker Art BBS</b> was joined by<font size="+2"><b> Virtual
Town TV</b></font>, a BBS renewed with a new graphic style and managed
together with the Strano Network group of Florence:<br>
<br>
<a
href=
"http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Virtual_Town_TV_(1994)"
>http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Virtual_Town_TV_(1994)</a><br
>
<br>
<br>
In 2000 the BBS was closed and the site opened<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.hackerart.org">http://www.hackerart.org</a><br>
<br>
which, however, has very different contents from those of the original
BBS and does not allow the interaction that the BBS allowed in its ten
years of life.<br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+2"><b>HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY HACKER ART BBS
!!!</b></font><br>
<br>
Tommaso Tozzi<br>
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