Digital: A Love Story

The Next Hope

Presented by: Christine Love, Jason Scott
Date: Friday July 16, 2010
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Location: Lovelace

<p>Earlier this year, author Christine Love released a computer game called <em>Digital: A Love Story,</em> an interactive adventure based about BBSes, hacking, and science fiction. Taking place in 1988, Love created a game that took place one year before she was born, utilizing textfiles.com as a research source for historical fiction. Textfiles.com&#8217;s Jason Scott will interview Christine about the inspiration and creation of this game, what the BBS era offers as a story background, and a glimpse into how future generations will look at the hackers of today.</p>

Christine Love

<p> <strong> Christine Love </strong> is writer of all sorts of fiction, especially science fiction and romances, and an occasional professional programmer. She has studied &#8217;80s hacking and computer culture only well after the fact, and perhaps romanticizes the era a little too much. When not writing novels or computer game narratives, she is a full time student of English literature and history, located just outside of Toronto. </p>

Jason Scott

<p> <strong> Jason Scott </strong> is a computer historian known for either his website textfiles.com, his documentaries <em> BBS </em> and <em> Get Lamp, </em> his Twittering cat Sockington, his presentations and speeches at many different conventions, or his insistence on never shutting up. He lives a little north of here. </p>


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