Comments on: Cyberpunk dress code, circa 1990

By: daen

daen — Sat, 26 May 2012 10:38:00 +0000

I love San Francisco. I’ve just had a drink with the guy in the photo (and also a former Mondo editor). Chris and Paul; I salute you both.

By: Michael Crumpton

Michael Crumpton — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:43:00 +0000

Of course this is intended to be totally over the top but, the funny thing is that virtually all of his accessories are standard features of a decent smartphone, or somebody makes a cheap accessory to add that function.

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:12:00 +0000

Given that I grew up in rural South Dakota and went to college in rural Minnesota, I felt similar.

I had a pretty good literary-music education, though, by reading “the trouser press record guide” or somesuch at the library. It was a couple of years before I ever actually _heard_ Einsturzende Neubauten, but d**n if the descriptions weren’t awesome enough.

I literally heard Ministry by accident, walking into a room where someone was playing the record for the first time. I said goodbye to my surf-music tapes shortly thereafter….

By: imonroe

imonroe — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:03:00 +0000

So if this piques your interest, there are about 17 (and counting!) entries in the Mondo 2000 history project posted over at Acceler8or.com. Most recent is this conversation-over-lunch between Ted Nelson and John Perry Barlow.

http://www.acceler8or.com/2012/05/ted-nelson-john-perry-barlow-for-mondo-2000-mondo-2000-history-project-entry-17/

A treasure trove of cyberpunk history!

By: Eric Windisch

Eric Windisch — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:30:00 +0000

Even then, the book didn’t release until 1993. Maybe that was why it was a pirated version, he is so 1337, he has a leaked copy? Still, 3 years early is very-early…

I’m not saying this isn’t legit, it seems so… but year seems slightly off. Others seem to agree with 1992/1993 or so, and I tend to agree.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:49:00 +0000

The loglo.

By: Ashen Victor

Ashen Victor — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:16:00 +0000

You are not alone.

Except for all that chrome everywhere nonsense. You cant be stealthy and shinny at the same time!

By: Beanolini

Beanolini — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:33:00 +0000

“Mommy, why does that old man have a kids’ haircut?”

As someone old enough to remember the arse-end of 70s punk, I find myself saying “why do those kids have old men’s haircuts?”

By: Charlie B

Charlie B — Fri, 25 May 2012 04:26:00 +0000

I still do get one a couple times a year… but I don’t actually shave my head, just clip it real close. Shaving tears up the scars and gives me razor bumps.

Mostly given up tobacco, though. Just the occasional cigarillo.

“Mommy, why does that old man have a kids’ haircut?”

By: mjd

mjd — Fri, 25 May 2012 04:22:00 +0000

Amazing. 22 years and Jamie Zawinski doesn’t look a day older.

By: Dinah Sanders

Dinah Sanders — Fri, 25 May 2012 03:29:00 +0000

Yeah, Hudak only carried around about 70% that much stuff on a daily basis.

By: skestes

skestes — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:41:00 +0000

Ah, Nostalgia! My 1st edition Shadowrun sourcebook still holds a special place my shelf.

There’s hope tho… http://harebrained-schemes.com/shadowrun/

By: pupdog

pupdog — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:24:00 +0000

I can only imagine how much Neil Gaiman giggled to himself when writing ”
“The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel.” in Neverwhere

By: travtastic

travtastic — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:23:00 +0000

I’m mentally preparing myself for my grandkid’s rebellious analogpunk phase.

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:59:00 +0000

Am I the only one who wants to play Shadowrun now?

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:58:00 +0000

Chrysanthemum punk?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:37:00 +0000

I had my mohawk c. 1985.

By: Charlie B

Charlie B — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:31:00 +0000

Give him a mohawk and a cigarette and it’s me, same year.

By: Doc_S

Doc_S — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:18:00 +0000

I started out reading this thinking that I am amazingly old. But then I realize that I started very, very young.

Then, I actually had to look up what Cintra Wilson’s up to these days.

By: Nicky G

Nicky G — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:07:00 +0000

I remember that photo from M2K like it was yesterday, sheesh. Does anybody remember the ad from M2K for Ono Sendai? I was really confused when I saw it, I was like, Ono Sendai is real? I still have no idea if the ad was just a joke, or what.

LOL remember when ads had, like, AOL keywords instead of domain names listed? Those were the days, those crazy early 90s.

By: magister418

magister418 — Thu, 24 May 2012 23:54:00 +0000

cyberpunk album was 1993. powerbook shown was later 1992. the time magazine article on cyberpunk was early 1993. the ministry reference would’ve been current, funny, relevant in 1992-3. not 1994. not 1991. a user’s guide (mondo2000) was late 1992.

By: Fieran Mason-Blakley

Fieran Mason-Blakley — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:59:00 +0000

That was painful

By: Derek B

Derek B — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:04:00 +0000

R.U. Brendan Fraser in Airheads?

By: GawainLavers

GawainLavers — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:50:00 +0000

Growing up in a remote corner of Arkansas one of the things we did to entertain ourselves was drive around from one Quik-E-Mart type place to another looking through their video selections (they pretty much all did VHS rental on top of gas and Slurpees) and try to find the worst-looking B grade Sci-fi/Horror movies on offer. This was before MST3K did it for you. Once in a while we'd stumble on a forgotten gem instead, like Hardware. In one scene there's a band playing impossibly fast metal and screaming seemingly incoherently in a video playing behind the protagonists, and stuck in a world where the choices were Country or Western, with "Classic Rock" if you had a big enough antenna, I thought, "I wish there was a real band that badass."

By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:49:00 +0000

Speaking as someone who’s sat in front of a computer most days for the past 16 years:

His BMI seems a bit low. Maybe he walked to work?

By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:40:00 +0000

I remember a promo photo from the album’s release had Mr. Idol looking extremely similar to Metal Machine Music-era Lou Reed. I thought, “hell I could just listen to MMM, I guess that’s ‘cyberpunk’.”

By: yri

yri — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:33:00 +0000

Laugh all you want, but this is exactly how we dressed back then. Now, you kids get off my lawn!

By: brownpau

brownpau — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:32:00 +0000

Along the same lines I present to you the cover of U.S.News & World Report in December, 1997:

By: rrh

rrh — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:26:00 +0000

Tim Curry!

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:21:00 +0000

m/ m/