Portals: Interlude
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by Browallia/Nukleus
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by Browallia/Nukleus
Scene portals. There are many and for me, they are my heroes. They don't produce the data, but I've mention in some articles (1999, 2000, 2003 and 2007) the importance of peripheric activites and those acts holding scene together with an invisible glue. Portals have this function (a chart mag is another example).
This article set is the biggest scene study ever made with stories from founders. Curiosity was behind when I asked the people behind Scenet, Orange Juice, Back 2 the Roots, Diskmag.de, Demozoo, Pouet, Bitworld (Kestra) SAFiR, textmod.es, asciiarena and last Bitfellas.org. I have noticed, that its very difficult to give an exact date when scene portals went online. Is it the first day of going public or that date when you know where your portal is heading? I leave this open for future discussion.
I would like to mention a few other great portals I didn't cover:
- Untergrund.net was created in 2003 and went fully public for hosting sites 2005.
- ADA, the matrix for Amiga coders and their products.
- AMP with french roots just like many others (Orange Juice, Nectarine & Pouet).
- Scene.org with file archives and yearly awards between 2002-2012.
- SceneSat with broadcasting and reminding us that what comes to internet stays in internet
and finally
- Slengpung with personally scene galleries.
Anyway, thank you all for existing or your days from the past.