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Inside David Bowie’s insane, disturbing virtual world from 1998 that some fans never left

🟣 SC: Spatial Computing 🌀 DTech: Digital Technologies

The year was 1998, and AOL trial CDs were filling mailboxes from coast to coast. Connecting to the Internet meant sitting through a chorus of dial-up tones and disabling one of your phone lines in the process. Between Yahoo chat rooms, the early rumbles of Y2K, and Will Smith’s “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It,” a pop star wanting to run his own ISP didn’t seem all that strange.

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